Johnson, Jacinta Booker

Tenure Summary

What happened on their watch

Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison (2019–present)

• June 14, 2026 — Phillip Dwayne Rogers, 66, recorded under cause-category 6.
• June 26, 2026 — Mark Rutledge, 72, recorded under cause-category 3. A GPS notes field preserves a witness/family account stating, “This man was beaten at GDCP on Father's Day.” The same note states that the GDC’s June 2026 monthly mortality report confirmed the fact of death but carried no cause of death, and the body was sent to a GBI crime lab with the GDC Office of Professional Standards investigating. GPS records initially dated the death June 27, 2026, then changed the record date to June 26, 2026, adopting the GDC report date; the earlier witness date is preserved in the file.
• June 27, 2026 — Leonel Cedillo, 42, recorded under cause-category 6.
• July 2, 2026 — James Nelson Hall, 67, recorded under cause-category 6.
• July 13, 2026 — Shaun Corey Farrell, 48, recorded under cause-category 6.

GPS records assign four of the five deaths to cause-category 6; the remaining record, for Mark Rutledge, is assigned cause-category 3. The extract provides no narrative cause for the four category-6 deaths.

During the years Johnson was assigned to the facility, GPS intelligence files also contain broader allegations and capacity reports about Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison. According to Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporting summarized in those files, newly convicted inmate Shane Tassi was photographed with a homemade shank and a contraband cellphone at GDCP in 2024; Officer Vera Jackson admitted receiving money to provide death row prisoner Eric Perkinson with information on shakedowns and staff; Charles Lee Broady Jr. requested protection from gang members and was then attacked by six gang members with razor blades; and nearly every part of the prison had been vandalized with widespread infrastructure failures. GPS records also include reports stating that GDCP held about 4,540 incarcerated people in a facility designed for 800 — 568% of original design capacity — in 2025 and 2026 reports. These documents describe facility-wide conditions and allegations; none of them, in the provided extract, names Johnson as an individual defendant or subject.

Sources

• GPS personnel and death-attribution records for Johnson, Jacinta Booker
• Georgia Department of Corrections June 2026 monthly mortality report, as cited in GPS record for Mark Rutledge
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on GDCP security failures, contraband, inmate violence, and infrastructure damage, as summarized in GPS intelligence files
• GPS intelligence reports and event logs concerning Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison capacity and conditions

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 6, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.