Johnson, Jacinta Booker

Tenure Summary

Jacinta Booker Johnson entered the Georgia Department of Corrections as a correctional officer in 2015, per state personnel and salary records, and rose through the uniformed ranks — sergeant from 2016 through 2018, then lieutenant (2019–2020), captain (2021–2023) and correctional unit manager (2024–2025) at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison. On April 1, 2026, she became Deputy Warden of Security at that same prison, the only facility-leadership posting in her record.

GPS's death registry attributes 11 deaths to her leadership tenure, all of them at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, and all falling between June 14 and September 22, 2026 — a span of roughly fourteen weeks. No lawsuit naming her as a defendant appears in the records reviewed for this profile.

What happened on their watch

Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison — Deputy Warden of Security (April 1, 2026–present). Deaths attributed during this tenure: 11.

The registry records the following deaths in her custody-level tenure:

• Phillip Dwayne Rogers died June 14, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 66.
• Mark Rutledge died June 26, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 72.
• Leonel Cedillo died June 27, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 42.
• James Nelson Hall died July 2, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 67.
• Shaun Corey Farrell died July 13, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 48.
• Walter Brown died August 3, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 66.
• Tommy L Tucker died August 6, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 77.
• Michael Wayne Forker died August 8, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 74.
• Thomas Harold Broach died August 22, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 81.
• Dru Eggebrecht died September 5, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 39.
• Wendell Thomas Cochran died September 22, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 68.

Nine of the 11 deaths carry a cause of Unknown/Pending in GPS's registry — the registry does not yet know the cause in those cases. Recorded ages range from 39 to 81. In the Rutledge case, records dated June 29, 2026, state that the GDC's Office of Professional Standards was leading the investigation and that the body was sent to a GBI crime lab to determine cause of death.

Other matters recorded at the prison during her tenure as Deputy Warden of Security: on September 11, 2026, WGXA reported that Deivon Waller conspired to smuggle methamphetamine, marijuana and cell phones into multiple Georgia prisons using drones; federal sentencing records that day show Waller received 240 months plus a $2,000 fine and three years of supervised release, Asa James Ward 56 months and a $1,500 fine, and Tristahn Ash 92 months and a $1,500 fine. Stacey Ian Humphreys was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at the prison on September 16, 2026; the Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency on September 15, and his attorneys that same day filed a notice of appeal asking the state Supreme Court to review a September 10 ruling denying him a new trial. Reporting by WRDW and The Georgia Virtue in early September 2026 concerned conflict-of-interest claims against two Board members, including a ruling that member Kimberly McCoy had a conflict. Separately, on September 17, 2026, the Human and Civil Rights Coalition of Georgia shared a video by correctional officer Kerri-Ann Crumbley in which she told the department that almost anyone can be hired and few can do the job, that officers who do the job without doing anything illegal become its trainers, and that people in custody are "not clones or robots" — a witness claim, not a finding; GDC personnel records carry no facility for her.

Sources

• Georgia Department of Corrections personnel and salary records — positions held 2015–2026, including Deputy Warden of Security from April 1, 2026
• GPS death registry / GDC mortality records — 11 deaths at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, June–September 2026
• GDC Office of Professional Standards / GBI — Rutledge death investigation, June 29, 2026
• WGXA — drone contraband conspiracy and sentencings, September 11, 2026
• WRDW and The Georgia Virtue — Humphreys clemency and parole-board conflict reporting, September 2026
• Facebook — Human and Civil Rights Coalition of Georgia, shared video of officer Kerri-Ann Crumbley, September 17, 2026

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Nov 1, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.