Jefferson, Jerry LEE

Tenure Summary

Jerry Lee Jefferson's career record with the Georgia Department of Corrections spans 2015 through 2023, moving from a Correction Administration post (2015, salary $41,817.84) into a Deputy Warden slot (2016, $42,938.52), then a three-year run as a CSM Correctional Lieutenant (2017–2019), two years as a Correctional Unit Manager (2020–2021), and a return to Deputy Warden for 2022–2023, ending at $90,869.82. His personnel record lists him as active. Notably, none of the position entries in the records carry a facility assignment, so it is not possible from this data to tie him to a specific institution during any of those years.

Per GPS compilation of GDC records, zero deaths are attributed to Jefferson across his leadership tenures — there are no per-facility death counts, no named decedents during his tenure, no intel reports or intel events recorded at any facility for his tenure dates, and no news reports naming him. One federal lawsuit names him as a defendant, filed after the last documented position in these records.

What happened on their watch

Correction Administration (2015) and Deputy Warden (2016) — staff- and deputy-tier roles, no facility recorded. GPS records attribute no deaths to either period.

CSM Correctional Lieutenant (2017–2019) — a unit-supervisor tier position held across three consecutive years, no facility recorded. No deaths are attributed, and no intel reports or events are recorded against his tenure dates.

Correctional Unit Manager (2020–2021) — unit-supervisor tier, no facility recorded. Again, no attributed deaths and no recorded intel items.

Deputy Warden (2022–2023) — deputy-tier leadership role, salary rising from $71,610.28 to $90,869.82, no facility recorded. No deaths attributed for these years, and the intel and news lists contain nothing tied to his tenure.

Because the records do not identify a facility for any posting, no facility-level systemic pattern can be connected to him here, and the general absence of intel items in this dataset should not be read as evidence that any institution was incident-free.

Litigation

• Jacobs v. Georgia Department of Corrections, No. 4:25-cv-00111, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, filed 2025-03-26. Status: pending; no closure date or outcome amount recorded. The docket is listed in his record as a suit in which he is a defendant; the provided data does not state the claims, the relief sought, or whether he is named individually or solely in an official capacity. The filing post-dates the last GDC position in these records (ending 2023-12-31).

Sources

• CourtListener — docket for Jacobs v. Georgia Department of Corrections, No. 4:25-cv-00111 (M.D. Ga., filed Mar. 26, 2025)
• Georgia Department of Corrections personnel/position and salary records, 2015–2023, as compiled by Georgia Prisoners' Speak
• GPS personnel-accountability dataset (death attributions, intel reports/events, and news mentions) for Jefferson, Jerry Lee — all lists empty for this person

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.