Hammock, Alisa M

Tenure Summary

Alisa M. Hammock entered Georgia Department of Corrections payroll in 2015 in correction administration, then moved into facility leadership as a Deputy Warden at Hays State Prison, a post she held from 2016 through 2025, with her salary rising from $42,740.66 in 2016 to $75,369.12 in 2025. On July 16, 2026, she moved into the Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment position at the same facility, a role with no end date recorded.

Thirty-three deaths are attributed to her leadership tenure, all of them at Hays State Prison, per the GPS death registry. Registry entries record homicide as the manner or cause category for eight of the 33, suicide for five, natural/medical for eight, accident for two, and Unknown/Pending for ten. Nine state liability settlements tied to Hays — from $250 to $650,000 — are recorded in the Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger during the years she held the deputy warden post, and she is named as a defendant in two federal-court dockets that remain pending.

What happened on their watch

Hays State Prison — Deputy Warden (2016–2025). The 33 deaths attributed to Hammock's tenure fall in this period; the most recent registry entry is November 28, 2025. Among the deaths carrying a homicide determination are men aged 25 to 48, several of them killed with edged weapons. The registry records:

• Barcel Roylee Ward died November 28, 2025, at Hays State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 39).
• James Cannon died October 25, 2025, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide (age 48).
• Raymont Savion Farley died June 15, 2025, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical (age 36).
• Tommy Joe Strickland died June 4, 2025, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical (age 60).
• Ralph Carter died March 5, 2025, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 39).
• Joey Griffin died December 26, 2024, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 54).
• Thomas Johnson died October 24, 2024, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 82).
• Lawrence L Williams died October 24, 2024, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide (age 30).
• Mackendy Pierrette died September 13, 2024, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 50).
• Keith Johnson died August 19, 2024, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 57).
• Timothy Darmofal died May 22, 2024, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 58).
• Freddie Lee Iii Talley died May 6, 2024, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide (age 31).
• Theron Morrell Hendrix died April 19, 2024, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 31).
• Jeremy Edward Price died March 2, 2024, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide (age 36).
• Talore Stihles Blackford died October 28, 2023, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide (age 31).
• Randoulf Gutierrez died October 19, 2023, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 42).
• Ronnie Joe Criswell died August 15, 2023, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical (age 67).
• Robert Millan Cook died July 17, 2023, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical (age 57).
• Quane Laquaus Johnson died January 15, 2023, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Accident (age 33).
• Robert Lee Burton died December 13, 2022, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical (age 58).
• Tony Christopher Williams died October 14, 2022, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Suicide (age 34).
• John Terrell Bohannon died September 20, 2022, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 79).
• Quintez Deshon Smith died August 29, 2022, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide (age 25).
• Alberto Eddie Deleon died July 11, 2022, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Suicide (age 51).
• Yaheed Tyquan Brooks died May 23, 2022, at Hays State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Suicide (age 28).

Incident records add detail to several of these. Jeremy Edward Price, 36, died March 2, 2024, from stab wounds to the neck and chest; his mother, Tammy Price, told the AJC she still does not know what happened to her child. Freddie Lee Talley, 31, was stabbed to death on May 6, 2024; officers recovered seven weapons ranging from 9 to 22 inches, and three incarcerated people received disciplinary reports but had not been charged as of January 2025, per reporting logged to this posting. Quintez Smith, 25, died August 29, 2022, from multiple sharp force injuries; Jorge Renberto Ventura-Cabrera, 35, died June 5, 2021, from stab wounds to the neck, torso and upper extremities; Anthony L. McGhee Jr., 34, died March 29, 2020, from complications of blunt force head trauma and sharp force trauma. An October 27, 2023, fight at Hays involving four incarcerated people, described by GDC as believed gang-related and contained to one dorm, sent three to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Settlements from the GA DOAS Risk Management ledger tied to Hays during this period include Charles L. Broady Jr. ($650,000, logged November 22, 2017), Monica Rodriguez ($65,000, November 16, 2016), Joshua Blash ($80,000, October 10, 2016), Synita Hudgins ($35,000, August 12, 2022), Cecelia Carson ($29,000, February 28, 2020), Alexander Williams ($23,000, January 28, 2019), Travarus Smith ($15,000, July 13, 2017), Uriah Raheem ($5,000, November 23, 2019) and Deborah Martin as agent for Kendrick R. Martin ($250, October 3, 2017). Staff-side contraband cases were also logged: officer Voltaire Pierre was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison for bringing cannabis, cocaine and methamphetamine into Hays in noodle-soup containers over four months in 2018 in exchange for $7,000, and a former Hays guard was sentenced in February 2025 for smuggling methamphetamine and other contraband for over a month, per the AJC. In a January 21, 2025, AJC investigation, Tammy Price alleged that GDC omits manner-of-death information from mortality reports to conceal an inability to protect prisoners — an allegation, not a finding. During this posting GDC also announced a $600 million prison spending surge with the first 126-bed "hardened" module under construction at Hays (January 2025), and later a $24 million hardened unit at Hays (October 2025).

Hays State Prison — Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment (July 16, 2026–present). Inmate reports logged to this posting describe two 2026 incidents: one in which an officer was reportedly taken hostage and another staff member stabbed, with reports alleging no tactical response; and one in which a group allegedly tried to take a package from an officer, stabbed a lieutenant and left another officer restrained, with National Guard presence reported. GDC statements carried in October–November 2026 coverage describe a fight among four incarcerated people in two dorms at Hays, believed gang-related, with three hospitalized and later returned, and no staff injured — an event GDC cited when it locked down more than 25 state prisons, later reduced to two full lockdowns and restricted movement at three facilities. A family report dated September 1, 2026, posted in a public Georgia prison family Facebook group, alleged that people held in strip cells in the Hays infirmary were barred by policy from phone calls and visitation, including during a 2024 mental health crisis involving food refusal; a second comment from the same thread alleged a warden personally intervened over months to keep an incarcerated man alive during that crisis by bringing food, arranging visits and calls, and bringing peers to the infirmary. Those are family accounts, not verified findings.

Litigation

• Mckenzie v. Oliver, No. 4:26-cv-00108 (GAND), filed April 28, 2026; pending. Hammock is named as a defendant.
• Daker v. Jones, No. 4:24-cv-00173 (GAND), filed July 15, 2024; pending. Hammock is named as a defendant.

Sources

• GPS death registry — cause and date entries for the 33 deaths at Hays State Prison during Hammock's leadership tenure, including the 25 named above.
• Georgia Department of Corrections salary and position records — Deputy Warden, Hays State Prison, 2016–2025; Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment, 2026–.
• GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger (Open Records) — nine Hays State Prison liability payouts, 2016–2022.
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on the Talley and Price stabbing deaths, the former guard's methamphetamine smuggling sentence, the 2018 Voltaire Pierre contraband case, and Tammy Price's January 2025 allegations about mortality reporting.
• CourtListener dockets — Mckenzie v. Oliver; Daker v. Jones.
• Facebook, public comment in a Georgia prison family group (September 1, 2026) — family accounts of strip-cell conditions and a 2024 mental health crisis at Hays.
• GPS case submissions (inmate/messaging-group reports, August 30, 2026) — alleged 2026 hostage and stabbing incidents at Hays.
• GDC statements in October–November 2026 lockdown coverage — the Hays dorm fight, the statewide lockdowns and their reduction.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Nov 8, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.