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Jones, Deserre'
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Profile written May 31, 2026
This profile reflects positional accountability — this individual held the leadership roles shown during the dates shown, during which the listed deaths or lawsuits occurred. Inclusion does not constitute a legal finding of personal culpability for any specific incident.
Tenure Summary
Deserre' Jones held financial and analyst roles within the Georgia Department of Corrections before becoming the deputy warden at Macon State Prison in January 2018. Jones has served continuously in that facility-leadership position through at least the end of 2025. GPS records attribute 86 deaths to Macon State Prison during Jones’s tenure as deputy warden — a period marked by a high volume of violent deaths, documented systemic staffing shortages, and multiple external investigations into unconstitutional conditions at the facility.What happened on their watch
Jones became deputy warden at Macon State Prison on January 1, 2018, and remained in that post throughout the years covered by the available data. GPS records attribute 86 deaths at the prison while Jones held the deputy warden role. The in-custody deaths span a range of causes and include numerous homicides. Among those whose deaths are documented during this window are Bobby Edward Lee Jr., who was strangled by his cellmate in July 2020; Carrington Jwon Frye, stabbed to death in March 2020; Dan Brooks, killed by a stab wound to the neck in August 2022; Sanchez Jackson, stabbed in June 2025; and Marquis Young, a homicide victim in October 2025. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s investigative homicide database ties many of these deaths to inmate-on-inmate assaults with sharp or blunt instruments, and several death certificates reviewed by the AJC list causes such as exsanguination, sharp force trauma, and ligature strangulation.Allegations and investigative findings point to broader failures at the prison during Jones’s tenure. The U.S. Department of Justice released a report in October 2024 describing conditions at Georgia prisons — including Macon State Prison — where assaults, stabbings, and sexual violence had become routine, and where woeful understaffing left facilities unable to maintain basic security. The DOJ report specifically noted that in March 2023, four gang members ran past an officer to the kitchen area and fatally stabbed prisoner Sabino Carlos Ramos, with eleven prisoners ultimately stabbed in that incident. The AJC separately reported that as of October 2024, about two-thirds of correctional officer positions at Macon State Prison were unfilled, and the local coroner told the newspaper that he sometimes found only five to eight officers staffing the entire facility when responding to deaths.
Multiple lawsuits and allegations further illuminate the environment. A federal lawsuit over the strangulation death of Bobby Edward Lee Jr. alleged that officials placed Lee in a cell with a convicted murderer despite his pleas for protection, and no officers responded until after he was dead; the state settled that case for $1.375 million, according to records. The Southern Center for Human Rights filed a lawsuit in January 2025 alleging that as many as 96 incarcerated people at Macon State Prison were forced to share a single toilet, among other severe deprivations. Carrington Frye’s mother alleged to the AJC that her son bled for more than half an hour after being stabbed before help arrived. And Sanchez Jackson’s family reported receiving only a brief, vague call from the warden after his killing, per the AJC. Additionally, news reports from 13WMAZ documented guilty pleas by men housed at Macon State Prison who coordinated drug trafficking operations from inside the facility using contraband cellphones. None of the available court records show Jones named as a defendant in civil rights or wrongful-death litigation. The 86 deaths and the accumulated allegations, however, unfolded while Jones served as the facility’s deputy warden.
Sources
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — multiple homicide reports and the Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation, covering deaths from 2020 through 2025 at Macon State Prison, and reporting on staffing shortages, the DOJ findings, and the Lee settlement.
- U.S. Department of Justice — October 2024 report describing unconstitutional conditions and violence in Georgia prisons, including the March 2023 mass stabbing at Macon State Prison.
- 13WMAZ — reporting on drug trafficking guilty pleas by prisoners at Macon State Prison.
- Southern Center for Human Rights — January 2025 lawsuit alleging severe overcrowding and sanitation deficiencies at Macon State Prison.
- GPS records — death count and facility-level attribution for Deputy Warden Jones’s tenure, and incident-level death data with names, dates, and cause categories.
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| DEPUTY WARDEN | MACON STATE PRISON | 2018-01-01 → present |
| BUSI SUPPORT ANALYST 1 | 2016-01-01 → 2017-12-31 | |
| FINANCIAL OPS GEN (AL) | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
86 people died at facilities under Jones, Deserre''s leadership.
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