Illa, Gabriel

Tenure Summary

Gabriel Illa's documented GDC career began in 2015 as a corrections officer and advanced through successive custody and unit-management ranks — correctional lieutenant (2016), correctional captain (2017–2018), and correctional unit manager (2019–2023) — across a decade in which the state salary records attached to his file show no facility assignment for those postings. His first facility-tier leadership post in the records is Deputy Warden at Hays State Prison, with entries dated Nov. 22, 2023 and Aug. 27, 2026, and salary years covering 2024 and 2025. He is recorded as Warden at Hays State Prison effective Sept. 1, 2026, with no end date, and his personnel status is listed as active.

Per the figures compiled by Georgia Prisoners' Speak, no deaths are attributed to any facility-leadership tenure held by Illa. His leadership record at Hays — deputy warden and warden — carries zero deaths attributed, no intelligence reports or logged events dated inside those windows, and no news coverage naming him.

What happened on their watch

Non-leadership posts, 2015–2023 (corrections officer, lieutenant, captain, unit manager). The records list no facility for these positions; the role titles and salary years are the extent of what is documented. Incident, report and event lists held by GPS cover only leadership-tier facility tenures, so no incident record is stated for these years either way.

Deputy Warden, Hays State Prison. Illa appears in the Hays deputy-warden role in entries dated Nov. 22, 2023 and Aug. 27, 2026, with salary years 2024 and 2025 recorded in between — the later dated entry indicates a second, separate record of the same posting. During these deputy-warden windows, no deaths are attributed to his tenure, no intelligence reports or events dated within the windows name him or the facility, and no news reports name him. No allegations of misconduct appear in the record for this period.

Warden, Hays State Prison, effective Sept. 1, 2026 (no recorded end date; status active). As the facility's top leader, Illa carries zero deaths attributed to his tenure. There are no intelligence reports or logged events dated inside this tenure, and no news items naming him.

Litigation

• Mckenzie v. Oliver, No. 4:26-cv-00108 (N.D. Ga.), filed April 28, 2026 — status pending; no outcome amount recorded. Court records list Illa as a defendant; the docket is styled against Oliver.
• Daker v. Oliver (Filing Restriction Per 59 Order), No. 1:25-cv-03191 (N.D. Ga.), filed June 6, 2025, terminated March 30, 2026 — no outcome amount recorded. Court records list Illa as a defendant; the docket is styled against Oliver.
• Daker v. Jones, No. 4:24-cv-00173 (N.D. Ga.), filed July 15, 2024 — status pending; no outcome amount recorded. Court records list Illa as a defendant; the docket is styled against Jones.

In each of the three dockets, the case name as filed does not itself carry Illa's name; his inclusion as a defendant comes from the court-record linkage in this dataset. The filings' underlying claims are not described in the available records, and no disposition on the merits is recorded for the two pending cases.

Sources

• CourtListener dockets — Mckenzie v. Oliver (4:26-cv-00108), Daker v. Oliver (1:25-cv-03191), Daker v. Jones (4:24-cv-00173), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• Georgia Department of Corrections position and salary records compiled by Georgia Prisoners' Speak — decade-long rank progression 2015–2026 and the Hays State Prison deputy warden and warden postings

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.