Jackson, Tracey Catina

Tenure Summary

Tracey Catina Jackson's documented GDC career began as a part-time instructor at Pulaski State Prison in 2013 and moved into behavioral health, holding counselor and then supervising counselor titles from 2015 through 2025 — including a 2020 posting listed at Dooly State Prison and a single-day Behavioral Health Counselor Spv entry there on November 22, 2023. On March 16, 2026, she entered facility leadership as Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment at Wilcox State Prison, a role the records show as her current position; a separate one-day "Deputy Warden" entry at Wilcox is dated August 27, 2026.

GPS attributes three deaths to her leadership tenure, all at Wilcox State Prison and all occurring while she held the Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment role. No lawsuits naming her as a defendant appear in the records. Her tenure is also marked by a cluster of reported violence at the facility — stabbings, lockdowns, and a September 3 death that GDC described as gang-related.

What happened on their watch

Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment, Wilcox State Prison (March 16, 2026 – present)

Three deaths fall within this posting, per GPS's death registry:

• Earnest Sims died March 16, 2026, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending. He was 44.
• Gary Dwayne Felver died June 15, 2026, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending. He was 65.
• Maurice Antonio Brown died September 3, 2026, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide.

In the records, each of these deaths carries the role "Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment" as Jackson's position at the time.

The incidents surrounding Brown's death are documented in several GPS event entries dated September 3–4, 2026: an altercation involving multiple inmates at Wilcox that resulted in one death and several injuries; seven inmates taken to hospitals, two of them airlifted, with two others treated on-site and no staff injured; and an entry stating that Maurice Brown was killed in a fight GDC described as gang-related, with his body sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab to determine official cause of death. The death is recorded as under investigation by GDC's Office of Professional Standards. GDC officials placed Wilcox State Prison on lockdown until further notice, according to a September 4, 2026 event entry.

An inmate report dated September 3, 2026, circulating in a Telegram group, describes a TAC squad shakedown of a dorm that recovered weapons, followed by an incarcerated person being attacked and stabbed to death by other incarcerated people; it states that local news reported one death and several injuries and that initial reports a guard had been stabbed were disputed. A second report of the same date relayed secondhand accounts of roughly 30 people stabbed or injured and up to seven airlifted, with no responsible party identified. A GPS event dated September 18, 2026 describes a gang-related fight at Wilcox that killed one inmate and injured nine.

Earlier in her tenure, a report dated April 1, 2026 describes multiple stabbing incidents at Wilcox resulting in a lockdown and a law enforcement response, with at least one person reportedly requiring emergency medical transport. A report dated May 18, 2026 describes a severe gang-related altercation leaving multiple incarcerated people slashed or stabbed and needing medical treatment, prompting a lockdown. A public Facebook post dated May 12, 2026, described as containing apparent insider knowledge, alleges that Wilcox reduced inmate movement to minimal staffing levels during on-clock senior staff gatherings on multiple occasions in the past year, and that the facility's budgeted annual issuance of hygiene items, undergarments and bedding had lapsed for roughly a year despite inmates receiving new uniforms. A report dated September 18, 2026 states that Wilcox was no longer on lockdown, indicating a lockdown there had lifted.

A separate one-day "Deputy Warden" entry at Wilcox State Prison is dated August 27, 2026; the records attach no deaths, reports or events to that entry.

Sources

• GPS case submissions and intel reports — Wilcox State Prison reports dated April 1, May 12, May 18, September 3 and September 18, 2026, all logged with the role "Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment."
• GPS death registry — entries for Earnest Sims (March 16, 2026), Gary Dwayne Felver (June 15, 2026) and Maurice Antonio Brown (September 3, 2026).
• Public Facebook post — May 12, 2026 allegation concerning inmate movement and lapsed supply issuance at Wilcox.
• Telegram group circulation — reported accounts of the September 3, 2026 stabbing and of a large-scale violent incident at Wilcox.
• GDC Office of Professional Standards — investigation noted in the September 4, 2026 event entry.
• GDC officials — lockdown statement of September 4, 2026.
• Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab — body sent for official cause of death, per the September 3, 2026 event entry.
• Local news, as relayed in an inmate report — one death and several injuries reported at Wilcox.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 11, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.