Harrison, Eugenia Darlene

Tenure Summary

Eugenia Darlene Harrison appears in Georgia Department of Corrections position records beginning in 2015, when she was listed as a social services program consultant. She moved into a Deputy Warden post in 2016 and held that title through 2019, with no facility specified in those records, then served as Deputy Warden at Augusta Transitional Center in 2020. From 2021 forward she is listed as a Correctional Superintendent; Augusta Transitional Center is named as her facility in the records dated November 2023, 2025 and August 2026. Her personnel record lists her status as active.

One death is attributed to her leadership tenures, at Augusta Transitional Center: James Nicolas Waugh, 30, who died on July 5, 2026, on a date when the records list Harrison's role there as Correctional Superintendent. No lawsuits naming her as a defendant appear in these records, and no news reports naming her directly are recorded in them.

What happened on their watch

Deputy Warden, Augusta Transitional Center (2020). Three logged events at the facility fall inside this posting. James Moses Hardy escaped on June 8, 2020, and was arrested on June 16; Christopher Craig, 40, escaped on Monday, August 3, 2020, at about 5 p.m., per GPS incident records. Each entry is logged with Harrison's role at the time as Deputy Warden. The death attributed to her leadership tenures does not fall in this period; it falls during her superintendent years at the same facility.

Correctional Superintendent (2021–2024). The salary-year position records for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 list the superintendent title without a facility assignment, so no facility-specific intel, incident or mortality list attaches to those years in this dataset. A separate record dated November 22, 2023 places her as Correctional Superintendent at Augusta Transitional Center.

Correctional Superintendent, Augusta Transitional Center (records dated 2023, 2025 and 2026). The single death attributed to Harrison's leadership falls here. James Nicolas Waugh, 30, died at Augusta Transitional Center on July 5, 2026, with Harrison's recorded role that day listed as Correctional Superintendent. The records assign the death a cause classification but include no published narrative of the circumstances, so no cause of death or sequence of events is established by these records. No lawsuits or intel reports are logged against her at this facility in this dataset.

Sources

• Georgia Department of Corrections annual position and salary records, 2015–2026, as compiled by Georgia Prisoners' Speak — career trajectory, titles, facility assignments, salaries
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak incident log for Augusta Transitional Center, 2020 — escapes of James Moses Hardy and Christopher Craig and Hardy's arrest
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak mortality record — death of James Nicolas Waugh at Augusta Transitional Center, July 5, 2026

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.