Harden, Vera ANN

Tenure Summary

Vera Ann Harden's record with the Georgia Department of Corrections begins in 2015, when she was listed as a Business Operations Generalist at an annual salary of $32,998.08. From 2016 through 2018 she appears as a Financial Operations Generalist 3, a staff-tier financial position, with salary rising from $32,998.08 to $34,667.76. In 2019 she moved into facility leadership as a Deputy Warden, with salary climbing from $51,359.72 that year to $67,674.32 in 2023 and $65,684.05 in 2024. Only one of those deputy warden years is tied to a named facility in the records: Augusta State Medical Prison.

GPS attributes one death to Harden's leadership tenure — a single death at Augusta State Medical Prison. No lawsuits naming her as a defendant appear in the records, and no news reports matching her name were found.

What happened on their watch

Deputy Warden — Augusta State Medical Prison (record dated Nov. 22, 2023)

The only facility-attributed posting in Harden's file is Deputy Warden at Augusta State Medical Prison, dated Nov. 22, 2023. On that same date, the death of Joshua Cain Phillips, 43, is recorded at Augusta State Medical Prison, with Harden listed as holding the Deputy Warden role at the time. The record assigns a cause category to Phillips's death but includes no public narrative, and GPS's data as provided does not specify the manner or circumstance beyond that category code; no cause of death is stated in the source material and none should be inferred.

That death is the sole fatality attributed to Harden's tenure in a leadership position, and Augusta State Medical Prison is the only facility carrying an attributed death in her record. The intel tables contain no reports or events tied to Harden at that facility on that date.

Harden's Deputy Warden years from 2019 through 2023, and her 2024 Deputy Warden year, are listed without an assigned facility in the records provided, so no deaths, intel reports, or events can be attributed to those postings from this data. Her earlier 2015–2018 financial roles are outside the facility-leadership tier and are documented here only by title, dates, and salary. No lawsuits were filed against her as a defendant during any of these periods according to the records, and no news coverage naming her appears.

Sources

• GPS personnel records — position history, titles, dates, and salaries for Vera Ann Harden, 2015–2024
• Georgia Department of Corrections salary data (as compiled in GPS personnel records) — annual pay figures by position
• GPS death records — death of Joshua Cain Phillips, age 43, recorded at Augusta State Medical Prison on Nov. 22, 2023, with Harden listed as Deputy Warden at the time

No court filings, DOJ documents, or news reports naming this person were among the records provided.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 23, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.