Hammock, Alisa M

Tenure Summary

Alisa M. Hammock held a Corrections Administration staff post in 2015, then served as Deputy Warden at Hays State Prison, with annual salary records from 2016 through 2025 and a single-day Deputy Warden record dated August 27, 2026. GPS records attribute 36 deaths at Hays State Prison to Hammock’s facility-deputy tenure. Court-record entries list Hammock as a defendant in two pending federal cases in the Northern District of Georgia: Daker v. Jones (filed 2024) and Mckenzie v. Oliver (filed 2026). No disposition is recorded for either case.

What happened on their watch

Hays State Prison — Deputy Warden

GPS records attribute 36 deaths at Hays State Prison to Hammock’s tenure as Deputy Warden. The documented deaths include multiple homicides and natural or medical deaths.

Among the homicide cases, a Chattooga County Coroner death-investigation file for Melvin Gay Johnson, 35, states he was found unresponsive in an open dorm on January 27, 2026, with multiple sharp-force injuries, and the manner was ruled homicide; no suspect or weapon was located. Telegram reports alleged Johnson had been beaten over three days and returned to the dorm despite telling a counselor he feared for his safety, but those accounts are not established in the coroner file. James Cannon, 48, was found unresponsive in his cell on October 25, 2025; the coroner found manner homicide with signs of strangulation, and the warden reported to the coroner that Cannon’s cellmate confessed to manually strangling him.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation lists several Hays deaths as homicides: Freddie Lee Talley III, 31, died May 6, 2024, from a stab wound to the chest; Jeremy Edward Price, 36, died March 2, 2024, from stab wounds to the neck and chest; Talore Stihles Blackford, 31, died October 28, 2023, from multiple stab wounds of the neck; Quintez Deshon Smith, 25, died August 29, 2022, from multiple sharp-force injuries; Jorge Renberto Ventura, 35, died June 5, 2021, from stab wounds to the neck, torso, and upper extremities; and Anthony Lamar McGhee, 34, died March 29, 2020, from complications of blunt-force head trauma and sharp-force trauma. GPS incident logs note that after Talley’s death, officers recovered seven weapons ranging from 9 to 22 inches, and three incarcerated people received disciplinary reports but had not been charged.

Coroner files also document natural deaths during Hammock’s tenure. Corey Anwar Dubose, 47, died March 23, 2026, of acute myocardial infarction due to diabetes mellitus; manner natural. Raymont Savion Farley, 36, died June 15, 2025, of epilepsy; the coroner’s file noted two packets of daily medications on the cell floor, described as possible undelivered or untaken medication for a known seizure patient. Tommy Joe Strickland, 60, died June 4, 2025, of AIDS with contributing fungal meningitis; manner natural. For earlier years, GDC’s own coding, obtained through the UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project, classified the deaths of Homer L. Brown, Jonathan Orlando Bailey, Casuasdas Denard Thomas, and Mason Dylan Babbage as natural or accidental, not autopsy findings.

A Telegram relay report dated April 1, 2026, alleged that an incarcerated person identified as “KG” was killed at Hays during an inspection, with two additional victims reported to have neck wounds. GPS classifies that report as AI-detected and not independently confirmed in the provided records.

Other incidents and allegations during Hammock’s tenure appear in GPS records. In 2025, Georgia announced a $24 million hardened 126-bed unit at Hays State Prison as part of a $600 million prison spending surge. GPS records also note a former Hays guard was sentenced for smuggling methamphetamine and other contraband, and Lieutenant Lakeshia Thomas pleaded guilty in April 2022 to arranging to bring marijuana in for a gang member. A family report from 2024 alleged that strip-cell status in the Hays infirmary barred phone calls and visits during a suicidal food-refusal crisis; the family credited Warden Joshua Jones with personal intervention. GPS has not established whether that restriction was written policy, a local procedure, or informal practice. Tammy Price, mother of Jeremy Price, alleged to the AJC that GDC hides its inability to protect prisoners by omitting manner-of-death information from mortality reports.

Litigation

• Daker v. Jones, No. 4:24-cv-00173, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, filed July 15, 2024; pending.
• Mckenzie v. Oliver, No. 4:26-cv-00108, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, filed April 28, 2026; pending.

Sources

• Chattooga County Coroner death-investigation files, obtained via GPS open-records requests (cases 26-020, 26-005, 25-103, 25-090, 25-049, 25-046)
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation and related Hays State Prison reporting
• UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project custodial mortality dataset, based on GDC coding for 2015–2021
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia dockets via CourtListener
• Coosa Valley News, via GPS research
• Telegram relay group reports, AI-classified
• Facebook public comments from Georgia prison family groups
• GPS personnel and salary records; GDC official mortality reports

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 6, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.