Hudson, Charles Leonard

Tenure Summary

Charles Leonard Hudson's GDC record begins at Macon State Prison, where he appears as a correctional officer in 2007 and again in 2015, then as a CSM correctional sergeant (2016–2018), lieutenant (2019–2020), captain (2021–2022) and correctional unit manager (2023–2024); the captain and unit-manager entries carry no facility, and one CSM Correctional Unit Manager entry is dated to Macon on November 22, 2023. His first leadership-tier posting was Deputy Warden of Security at Dooly State Prison, effective August 16, 2024, followed by Deputy Warden at Dooly for 2025 and Warden at Calhoun State Prison from June 1, 2026.

Across those leadership tenures, 15 deaths are attributed to his facilities — 14 at Dooly State Prison and 1 at Calhoun State Prison. No lawsuit naming Hudson as a defendant appears in the records reviewed. On December 8, 2025, while Deputy Warden at Dooly, Hudson himself was bitten on the thumb by an inmate while helping place the inmate in handcuffs; he was treated at the facility and no one else was hurt, per the incident record.

What happened on their watch

Dooly State Prison — Deputy Warden of Security (August 16, 2024 – January 15, 2025). Six deaths fall in this posting:

• Zeary Davante Davis died September 26, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Homicide (age 31). A county coroner told a TV station he was stabbed to death, per the event record.
• Ancion Leroy Wallace died September 27, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical (age 25).
• Thomas Adrian Chamblee died November 18, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Suicide (age 32).
• David Smith died November 20, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical (age 53).
• Michael Hutchins died December 21, 2024, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 75).
• Joshua Parrott died January 12, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide (age 45). An event record states the death was initially ruled a suicide and later reclassified as a homicide by strangulation.

Also inside this tenure, an event record shows inmate Magnum Jelani Neely sentenced September 5, 2024, to 278 months for leading an Augusta-area drug ring from Dooly using contraband cellphones. On October 1, 2024, Georgia Public Broadcasting reported that Cody Bailey alleges medical staff at Dooly put his father's treatment "on the back burner," contributing to his death from sepsis; the event record lists James Michael Bailey, 44, as dying of sepsis contracted from pneumonia caused by an infected insect bite roughly four months into his sentence.

Dooly State Prison — Deputy Warden (2025). Eight deaths fall in this posting:

• Joshua Parrott's successor calendar begins with Horatio Philmore, who died February 2, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide (age 58). One event record describes the death as officially ruled a suicide while inmate reports indicate strangulation.
• Timothy Glenn Williams died April 17, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Overdose (age 56).
• Orlando Perez Glass died August 17, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 49).
• Marshall Davis Crews died September 19, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 69).
• Willie Mote died October 14, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 70).
• Paul Counts died October 30, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 60).
• Darrow Brown died November 7, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide (age 58). An event record states he was stabbed to death.
• Dexter Andres Levy died November 16, 2025, at Dooly State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Overdose (age 32).

Records from this tenure also include a February 16, 2025 report on GDC appointing Mark Agbaosi warden of Dooly without a bachelor's degree; a February 19, 2025 GDC deployment of cellphone-blocking technology at Dooly, Calhoun, Hays and Wilcox; a March 12, 2025 arrest of Abraham Rivas, charged with impersonating a sheriff's officer to obtain $1,000 routed to a commissary account; April 7, 2025 inmate reports of a man beaten by "Lt. Fudge" and a CERT team after requesting protection from gang threats; an October 1, 2025 stabbing in which a contraband phone was used to call for emergency medical help; and a November 25, 2025 investigation into staffing collapse describing housing units with no officer supervision for hours or entire shifts. On January 21, 2025, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported a coroner's allegation that Carlos Omar Soldiew-Acosta may have been dead more than 24 hours before his body was found at Dooly, and that James Yarbrough died of ketoacidosis after months of uncontrolled diabetes in a case alleging medical malpractice. On December 3, 2025, WGXA reported that cadet Julius Deshawn Williams Jr. was caught with 640 grams of pure methamphetamine intended for an inmate.

Calhoun State Prison — Warden (from June 1, 2026). One death: Randy Walton died August 21, 2026, at Calhoun State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending (age 67). Inmate reports logged that tenure include a July 9, 2026 stabbing that severely injured one incarcerated person and prompted a lockdown, a September 16, 2026 lockdown amid a gang conflict reported to have spread from another state facility, and a September 17, 2026 fight that sent two people to the hospital. On September 28, 2026, the AJC reported a Florida sheriff's description of a "huge scam" run out of Calhoun and Wheeler Correctional Institution, and that Annie Ashley is accused of participation in a scam network that took $15,000 from a woman near Daytona Beach. On October 17, 2026, FOX 5 Atlanta reported contraband cellphones at Calhoun and the sentencings of Lance Riddle (200 months) and Joey Amour Jackson (120 months) for a jury-duty phone scam using spoofed police numbers.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — homicide and prison-failure investigations naming Dooly State Prison (January 21, 2025); Florida scam reporting naming Calhoun State Prison (September 28, 2026)
• Georgia Public Broadcasting — DOJ "deliberate indifference" reporting including Dooly State Prison (October 1, 2024)
• FOX 5 Atlanta — Calhoun jury-duty phone scam sentencings (October 17, 2026)
• WGXA — Dooly meth-smuggling arrest of cadet Julius Deshawn Williams Jr. (December 3, 2025)
• GPS incident and intel records, including the December 8, 2025 biting incident naming Hudson and the November 25, 2025 staffing-collapse investigation at Dooly

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 18, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.