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Jones, Deserre'
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Profile written August 30, 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 operations and business support analyst roles from 2015 through 2017, then became Deputy Warden at Macon State Prison in 2018. GPS records show annual Deputy Warden postings at Macon from 2018 through 2025, with an additional single-day Deputy Warden entry dated Aug. 27, 2026. GPS records attribute 89 deaths at Macon State Prison to Jones's facility-leadership tenure. Jones does not appear as a named defendant in any lawsuit in the structured record, but Macon State Prison was the subject of facility-level litigation, DOJ findings, and sustained homicide reporting during those years.What happened on their watch
Macon State Prison — Deputy Warden (2018 through the most recent records). GPS records attribute 89 deaths at Macon State Prison to this tenure. The available decedent sample runs from January 2020 into June 2026 and includes repeated homicides documented by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation: Carrington Frye in 2020, Bobby Edward Lee Jr. in 2020, Carlos Ramos in 2023, Reginald Ginn in 2024, Shannon Pickett in 2024, and Jonathan Mitchell in January 2025, among others. The records list suicides as well, including Calvin Noble in August 2025 and Cassiem Johnson in August 2025, along with many deaths coded as category 6 with no stated cause. In one documented conflict, GDC's January 2025 mortality release listed David Gill as "Suicide due to a Drug Overdose," but a later GBI Medical Examiner report certified sudden cardiac death, manner natural.Facility-level findings and allegations overlap Jones's tenure. According to the AJC, the DOJ's October 2024 report described assaults, stabbings, and rapes as routine at woefully understaffed Georgia prisons. The AJC also reported that about two-thirds of correctional officer jobs at Macon State Prison were unfilled as of October 2024, and that the coroner reported only five to eight officers staffing the entire facility when responding to deaths. A federal lawsuit reported by the AJC alleged Bobby Edward Lee Jr. was strangled by a convicted-murderer cellmate after pleading for protection, blaming understaffing and indifference by prison officials. The AJC reported Carrington Frye's mother alleged her son bled for more than half an hour before help arrived, and Kendrick Brown's mother alleged he was placed with a prisoner known to be dangerous shortly before release. In January 2025, the Southern Center for Human Rights filed litigation at Macon over inadequate bedding and hygiene conditions, with 96 inmates reportedly sharing a single toilet. GPS intel records also note four correctional officers arrested in September 2024 for oath violations and false statements, and contraband-cellphone drug trafficking and fraud schemes directed from the prison.
Sources
- GPS records — personnel, death, and intel datasets for Deserre' Jones and Macon State Prison
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation; staffing and homicide reporting during Jones's tenure
- U.S. Department of Justice report (October 2024), as cited in AJC and GPS intel records
- Southern Center for Human Rights litigation records (January 2025), via GPS intel events
- GBI Medical Examiner report for David Gill (ME-25-40093), via GPS records
- UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project custodial mortality dataset for GDC cause coding, via GPS records
- 13WMAZ and CBS News reports on contraband and fraud cases, via GPS intel records
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Warden | MACON STATE PRISON | 2026-08-27 → present |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | MACON STATE PRISON | 2018-01-01 → present |
| Deputy Warden | MACON STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| BUSI SUPPORT ANALYST 1 | 2016-01-01 → 2017-12-31 | |
| FINANCIAL OPS GEN (AL) | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
89 people died at facilities under Jones, Deserre''s leadership.
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