Hammock, Alisa M

Tenure Summary

Alisa M Hammock appears in Georgia Department of Corrections records in 2015 in a correction-administration role with no facility assigned, at a listed salary of $41,452.56. In 2016 she became Deputy Warden at Hays State Prison, and the records show her in that post continuously through 2025, with her listed salary rising from $42,740.66 to $75,369.12. On July 16, 2026, the positions table shows her moving into the Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment role at the same facility.

GPS attributes 33 deaths to her leadership tenures, every one of them at Hays State Prison. Court records list her as a defendant in two pending federal cases in the Northern District of Georgia. The Georgia Department of Administrative Services Risk Management settlement ledger (open records) records state liability payouts tied to Hays State Prison across her tenure, including a $650,000 payout in a 2017 matter.

What happened on their watch

Hays State Prison — Deputy Warden (2016–2025)

Thirty-three deaths are attributed to her leadership tenures at Hays State Prison. GPS's death registry records the following people as having died during that tenure:

• Barcel Roylee Ward died November 28, 2025, at Hays State Prison; the 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 give further detail on several of those deaths: Jeremy Edward Price, 36, died March 2, 2024, from stab wounds to the neck and chest, classified as a homicide in incident reports and confirmed by his death certificate; his mother, Tammy Price, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution she still does not know what happened to her child. Freddie Lee Talley, 31, died May 6, 2024, from a stab wound to the chest; officers recovered seven weapons ranging from 9 to 22 inches, and three incarcerated people received disciplinary reports but had not been charged. Talore Stihles Blackford, 31, died October 28, 2023, from multiple stab wounds to the neck. Quintez Deshon 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, with two other incarcerated people involved per the incident report. Anthony L. McGhee Jr., 34, died March 29, 2020, from complications of blunt force head trauma and sharp force trauma.

Other records tied to this tenure include an allegation reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (March 31, 2025) that a former Hays guard smuggled methamphetamine and other contraband to inmates for over a month, and a January 21, 2025 AJC report in which Tammy Price alleges the GDC is hiding its inability to protect prisoners by omitting manner-of-death information from mortality reports. A February 10, 2025 entry records the federal sentencing of a former Hays guard for smuggling methamphetamine; a 2018 entry records officer Voltaire Pierre receiving $7,000 over four months for bringing drugs into Hays in noodle soup containers and being sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison. Settlement-ledger payouts tied to Hays during this tenure include $650,000 (2017), $80,000 and $65,000 (2016), $35,000 (2022), $29,000 (2020), $23,000 (2019), $15,000 (2017), $5,000 (2019) and $250 (2017). Entries logged against Hays in this period also include a July 12, 2025 item concerning a riot and punitive lockdown at Ware State Prison, October 5, 2025 entries documenting investigations into systemic malnutrition and inadequate food service across Georgia prisons with Rogers State Prison identified as a central facility and Ms. Gunner named in several, and items describing earlier Hays events from late 2012 to early 2013 — three homicides within one month, an officer stabbed 22 times, and 42 percent of locks non-functional or easily defeated.

Hays State Prison — Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment (from July 16, 2026)

A family member's public comment in a Georgia prison family group (dated September 1, 2026) reports that people held in strip cells in the Hays infirmary were barred by policy from phone calls and visitation, including during a mental health crisis involving food refusal in 2024; a second comment from the same source reports that in 2024 a warden personally intervened over months to keep an incarcerated man on strip-cell status alive during a mental health crisis, bringing food, arranging family visits and calls, and bringing trusted peers to the infirmary despite policies barring such contact. Two inmate reports dated August 30, 2026 describe alleged 2026 incidents at Hays: one alleges an officer was taken hostage and a staff member stabbed with no tactical response and little public attention; the other alleges a disturbance in which a group attempted to take a package from an officer, stabbed a lieutenant and left another officer restrained, with National Guard presence reported.

Litigation

• Mckenzie v. Oliver, No. 4:26-cv-00108 (N.D. Ga.), filed April 28, 2026 — pending; Hammock listed as a defendant. Filed before her listed start date in the Care and Treatment post.
• Daker v. Jones, No. 4:24-cv-00173 (N.D. Ga.), filed July 15, 2024 — pending; Hammock listed as a defendant while she held the Deputy Warden post at Hays.

Sources

• GPS death registry / Georgia Department of Corrections mortality records — 33 deaths attributed to Hays State Prison across her leadership tenures.
• Georgia Department of Administrative Services Risk Management settlement ledger (open records) — payouts tied to Hays State Prison, 2016–2022.
• CourtListener dockets — Mckenzie v. Oliver (4:26-cv-00108); Daker v. Jones (4:24-cv-00173).
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — contraband-smuggling report (March 31, 2025); Tammy Price's mortality-reporting allegation (January 21, 2025).
• Facebook public comment, Georgia prison family group (September 1, 2026) — strip-cell allegations at Hays.
• GPS case submissions — inmate reports of 2026 disturbances at Hays (August 30, 2026).

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 11, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.