Hudson, Charles Leonard

Tenure Summary

Charles Leonard Hudson’s GDC record begins in 2007 as a correctional officer at Macon State Prison, with later records from 2015 through 2020 showing progression from corrections officer to sergeant and lieutenant at Macon. Records for 2021–2024 list captain and unit-manager titles without a facility assignment, plus a one-day Macon State Prison unit-manager entry in 2023. GPS records attribute 14 deaths to Hudson’s facility-leadership tenure, all at Dooly State Prison while Hudson served as Deputy Warden of Security / Deputy Warden from August 16, 2024, through December 31, 2025. The dataset contains no lawsuits naming Hudson as a defendant. Hudson later became Warden at Calhoun State Prison on June 1, 2026; GPS records show no deaths attributed to that Calhoun tenure.

What happened on their watch

Dooly State Prison — Deputy Warden of Security / Deputy Warden (Aug. 16, 2024 – Dec. 31, 2025)

During Hudson’s Dooly posting, GPS records attribute 14 deaths at the facility. The death-by-death sample runs from Zeary Davante Davis on September 26, 2024, to Dexter Andres Levy on November 16, 2025, and also includes Ancion Leroy Wallace, Thomas Adrian Chamblee, David Smith, Michael Hutchins, Joshua Parrott, Horatio Philmore, Timothy Glenn Williams, Orlando Perez Glass, Marshall Davis Crews, Willie Mote, Paul Counts, and Darrow Brown. GPS cause categories for the 14 records are: four category 3, two category 5, and eight category 6.

For two of the category-3 records, official records identify homicides. A GDC-released January 2025 mortality report lists Parrott’s January 12, 2025 death as “Homicide due to Strangulation.” A GDC EAH inmate-death report, cited in GPS records, describes Davis’s September 26, 2024 death as an inmate-on-inmate homicide in an assault by Offender Qwinterrious Dodson; the Dooly County Coroner recorded the manner as “undetermined,” and GPS notes state Dodson was never criminally charged. A third category-3 record, Philmore, carries a homicide annotation with disputed provenance. A GPS user report, not an official finding, alleges Brown was killed by a Crips gang member while being escorted. The two category-5 records carry notes describing overdose or natural/drug death (Levy and Williams). The remaining eight category-6 records have no notes. No Dooly intel reports in the sample are clearly dated within Hudson’s tenure; the indexed Dooly cadet meth-smuggling, phone-fraud, and later gang-fight items are dated before or after the deputy warden posting.

Calhoun State Prison — Warden (June 1, 2026 – present)

GPS records show no deaths attributed to Calhoun State Prison under Hudson’s warden tenure. The Calhoun intel and event records in the dataset — including DOJ findings on underreporting, a February 2026 death of Willie Andrew Willis Jr., and lifer-transfer reports — predate Hudson’s June 2026 warden start date and are not tied to Hudson’s tenure in the data.

Sources

• GPS records — personnel positions, death totals, decedent names, cause categories, and intel reports.
• Georgia Department of Corrections EAH inmate-death report re: Zeary Davante Davis, via GPS CMS Case 176, entry 1016.
• Georgia Department of Corrections January 2025 mortality report re: Joshua Parrott.
• WALB — reporting on DOJ investigation findings concerning Calhoun State Prison and GDC underreporting.

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.