Jones, Latorsha T

Tenure Summary

Latorsha T Jones entered the Georgia Department of Corrections in an administrative post, listed as a Financial Operations Generalist 3 for 2019 with no facility assigned and an annual salary of $32,774.16. In 2020 she moved into facility leadership as a Deputy Warden at Wilcox State Prison, a title the salary records show her holding across the 2020 through 2025 years — pay rising from $42,674.15 in 2020 to $69,779.47 in 2025 — and she is listed as Deputy Warden of Administration at the same prison from July 16, 2026.

GPS's death registry attributes 43 deaths to her leadership tenure, every one of them at Wilcox State Prison. No lawsuit naming her as a defendant appears in the records. The deaths include named homicides, overdoses, suicides and natural/medical deaths, and the prison drew repeated Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporting on gang violence and on a state risk-management payout tied to Wilcox.

What happened on their watch

Financial Operations Generalist 3 — 2019. Records list this as a financial/administrative position with no facility assignment, held for the 2019 year.

Deputy Warden, Wilcox State Prison — 2020 through 2025. The bulk of the 43 deaths attributed to her tenure fall in these years, and the registry's cause listings span homicide, overdose, natural/medical, suicide and one death recorded as Unknown/Pending. Violent deaths documented in the period include Mariol Juante Rawls, 41, who per an AJC report published January 21, 2025 was stabbed repeatedly with a 12-inch blade by at least eight men described as validated gang members in late August 2024, with at least eight men charged with murder; and Arthur Jerome Williams, 55, whose July 2024 death incident-report data records as a homicide involving two inmates. On September 3, 2023, GDC reported an inmate died and nine others were injured in a gang-related fight at the prison. In early 2025, nine inmates were sent to hospital with stab wounds after another gang fight there. Statewide, the AJC reported September 16, 2025 that GDC was investigating 42 deaths as possible homicides in the first six months of 2025 alone, and that the U.S. Department of Justice had found Georgia's gang-run prisons riddled with regular violence and sexual assault; the same reporting said hundreds of GDC employees had been arrested and fired for smuggling drugs and other contraband. That AJC report also carried family allegations specific to Wilcox: that the warden promised Dominique Cole's family a follow-up call with details of his death that never came, that the prison failed to return his wallet and Social Security card, and that Cole had told relatives guards there were tied to gangs, with gang members signing off on guards' actions. A January 21, 2025 AJC investigation alleged that officials failed to recognize James Wheeler's mental-health disease despite a history of self-harm and placed him in solitary confinement, where he was found hanging. Separately, the Georgia Department of Administrative Services risk-management settlement ledger (obtained through open records) records a $13,000 state liability payout tied to Wilcox State Prison for a 2023 incident involving Barrington Morrison.

Deputy Warden of Administration, Wilcox State Prison — from July 16, 2026. On September 3, 2026, Maurice Brown was killed in a fight GDC described as gang-related; seven injured inmates were taken to hospitals, two of them airlifted, and two more were treated on site with no staff injured. The prison was placed on lockdown the next day, and GDC's Office of Professional Standards opened an investigation, sending the body to the GBI Crime Lab for an official cause of death. Inmate reports submitted to GPS describe the same episode differently in scale: one secondhand Telegram account circulated through a GDC-related group described roughly 30 people stabbed or injured with up to seven airlifted and no responsible party identified, while another said a TAC squad shakedown of a dorm had recovered weapons shortly before an incarcerated person was attacked and stabbed to death, with early reports that a guard had been stabbed disputed. An event dated September 18, 2026 records another gang-related fight at the prison that killed one person and injured nine, and an inmate report of the same date says the lockdown had lifted.

Deaths named in GPS's registry during this tenure, most recent first:

• Maurice Antonio Brown died September 3, 2026, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 36.
• Willie Thomas Mosley died December 1, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 63.
• Stacy Ray Bullard died November 8, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Overdose, age 54.
• Collis Jr Welch died November 7, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Overdose, age 55.
• Harold Stanley Hester died July 10, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 78.
• Ian Rashod Henry died June 22, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 29.
• Dominique Cornelius Cole died June 8, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 37.
• Terry Alan Roper died June 6, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 70.
• Roy Lee Gates died May 16, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 39.
• Thomas Leonardo Schwartz died May 14, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 59.
• Darrius Jerrod Zanders died May 5, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Suicide, age 33.
• Daylyne Collins died April 20, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 30.
• Raymond Trey Moody died March 11, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 37.
• Keith Wingo died January 16, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical.
• James Edward Hogan died December 10, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Overdose, age 32.
• Rodney Hurley died November 9, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 56.
• George Luis Morales died October 28, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 75.
• Alexander S Grimes died October 9, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Overdose, age 44.
• Rodney Whatley died October 5, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 54.
• Mariol Juante Rawls died August 27, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 41.
• Jody Cris Jones died August 21, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 52.
• Arthur Jerome Williams died July 19, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 55.
• Kevin Joseph Degraft died February 12, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Overdose, age 40.
• Richard Amos died December 17, 2023, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 77.
• Brian Michael Niehaus died August 23, 2023, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 51.

Sources

• GPS death registry — cause and date listings for the 25 decedents named above.
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — September 16, 2025 report on homicides outpacing prior years, DOJ findings on gang-run prisons, contraband arrests of GDC employees, and the Cole family's account of Wilcox.
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — January 21, 2025 investigation into prison-system failures, including the Rawls stabbing and the death of James Wheeler.
• Georgia Department of Administrative Services Risk Management settlement ledger (open records) — $13,000 payout tied to Wilcox State Prison, 2023 incident involving Barrington Morrison.
• GDC statements and Office of Professional Standards investigation records relayed in GPS event logs — September 2026 Wilcox fight, lockdown and GBI Crime Lab referral.
• Inmate reports submitted to GPS (GDC-related Telegram accounts) — 2026 accounts of the September 3 fight, the reported TAC squad shakedown, and the lifting of the lockdown.
• U.S. Department of Justice — 2024 report on Georgia Department of Corrections facilities.

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.