Johnson, Jacinta Booker

Tenure Summary

Jacinta Booker Johnson's career with the Georgia Department of Corrections runs from an entry-level post to a facility command role. She served as a corrections officer in 2015, as a correctional sergeant from 2016 through 2018, then moved to Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison (GDCP) in Jackson as a correctional lieutenant (2019–2020), captain (2021–2023) and correctional unit manager (2024–2025). On April 1, 2026, she became Deputy Warden of Security at GDCP, the post she holds at the time of these records.

Five deaths are attributed to her leadership tenure, all of them at GDCP and all recorded while she held the Deputy Warden of Security role. No lawsuit naming her as a defendant appears in the records reviewed. During that same 2026 tenure, GDCP was the site of federal sentencings in a drone-contraband conspiracy, a contested death-penalty case involving inmate Stacey Humphreys, and an in-custody death that GDC's Office of Professional Standards referred to the GBI crime lab.

What happened on their watch

Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison — lieutenant (2019–2020), captain (2021–2023), unit manager (2024–2025). Across these years Johnson held unit-supervisor positions at GDCP. The incident and report lists associated with this profile cover only her Deputy Warden tenure; the earlier roles are documented here by title and dates.

Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison — Deputy Warden of Security (April 1, 2026–present). The five deaths attributed to her leadership tenure fall in June and July 2026: Phillip Dwayne Rogers, 66, on June 14; Mark Rutledge, 72, on June 26; Leonel Cedillo, 42, on June 27; James Nelson Hall, 67, on July 2; and Shaun Corey Farrell, 48, on July 13. Four of the five carry the same recorded cause classification; Rutledge's is classified differently. Ages range from 42 to 72.

Rutledge's death drew a formal response: per the records, GDC's Office of Professional Standards led the investigation and his body was sent to a GBI crime lab to determine cause of death. No public narrative is attached to any of the five death records.

Other 2026 matters at GDCP during her tenure, as reported by outside outlets: WGXA reported that Deivon Waller conspired to smuggle methamphetamine, marijuana and cell phones into multiple state prisons by drone — Waller was sentenced September 11, 2026 to 240 months plus a $2,000 fine and three years of supervised release, while fellow inmates Asa James Ward (56 months, $1,500 fine) and Tristahn Ash (92 months, $1,500 fine) were also sentenced. A separate line of coverage concerned Stacey Humphreys, scheduled for execution by lethal injection at GDCP at 7 p.m. on September 16, 2026 — which, per the reports, would have made him the 55th person executed by lethal injection in Georgia since 1976 and the state's first execution of the year. Clemency was denied on September 15, and his attorneys filed a notice of appeal with the Georgia Supreme Court the same day, seeking review of a September 10 Cobb County Superior Court decision denying a new trial. An earlier December execution date was halted after his lawyers argued two State Board of Pardons and Paroles members had conflicts of interest; per WRDW and The Georgia Virtue, a Fulton County judge ruled that Board member Kimberly McCoy had a conflict of interest, while finding none for the other member challenged.

A witness claim also falls in this window. On September 17, 2026, the Human and Civil Rights Coalition of Georgia shared a video of corrections officer Kerri-Ann Crumbley addressing the department. In it she described hiring and retention problems — that almost anyone can be hired and few can do the job — and gave a specific account of a hospital post where things she could have done for an incarcerated patient were refused to her as against policy. She tagged Jackson and the department; GDC personnel records carry no facility for her. She has since left the department, and accounts differ on whether she was fired or resigned — GPS asserts neither.

Sources

• Records compiled for this GPS personnel profile — death records, GDCP, June–July 2026; position and salary history, 2015–2026
• WGXA — drone-drop contraband conspiracy and sentencings of Waller, Ward and Ash, September 11, 2026
• WRDW — Humphreys clemency and final-meal coverage, September 9, 2026
• The Georgia Virtue — Fulton County ruling on Board of Pardons and Paroles member Kimberly McCoy, September 1, 2026
• Facebook / Human and Civil Rights Coalition of Georgia — shared video statement of officer Kerri-Ann Crumbley, September 17, 2026
• GDC Office of Professional Standards; GBI crime lab — Rutledge death investigation, June 29, 2026
• Court records — notice of appeal to Georgia Supreme Court, September 15, 2026; Cobb County Superior Court ruling denying new trial, September 10, 2026

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.