Jones, Latorsha T

Tenure Summary

Latorsha T. Jones entered the Georgia Department of Corrections in 2019 as a Financial Operations Generalist 3, a non-facility post. In 2020 she moved into custody leadership as Deputy Warden at Wilcox State Prison, a position she held continuously through 2025; in 2026 she is recorded as Deputy Warden of Administration at the same facility, with a separate one-day Deputy Warden entry dated August 27, 2026. Her recorded salary rose from $42,674.15 in 2020 to $69,779.47 in 2025.

GPS's death registry attributes 43 deaths to her leadership tenures, all of them at Wilcox State Prison. No lawsuit naming her as a defendant appears in the records. A state liability payout tied to the facility does: the Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger records a $13,000 settlement for Barrington Morrison, tied to Wilcox State Prison and a 2023 incident.

What happened on their watch

Wilcox State Prison — Deputy Warden (2020–2025) and Deputy Warden of Administration (2026)

All 43 deaths attributed to Jones's leadership occurred at Wilcox State Prison, spanning her years as Deputy Warden and her subsequent role as Deputy Warden of Administration. The registry entries below record a mix of natural/medical deaths, homicides and overdoses; the oldest decedent is 80 and the youngest 29 in the records cited here. Her post is administrative, but the deaths and incidents are recorded against the facility's leadership during the years she held it.

Violence at the facility is documented across her tenure. The Georgia Department of Corrections reported that a gang-related fight at Wilcox on September 3, 2023, killed one inmate and injured nine others, with seven hospitalized and two airlifted. News reports describe Mariol Rawls, 41, as stabbed repeatedly with a 12-inch blade by men described as validated gang members in August 2024, with at least eight people charged with murder. A gang fight in early 2025 sent nine inmates to hospitals with stab wounds.

An AJC report dated September 16, 2025, carried several claims about the facility: that the DOJ had found Georgia's gang-run prisons riddled with regular violence and sexual assault; that hundreds of GDC employees had been arrested and fired for smuggling drugs and other contraband; that the warden promised Dominique Cole's family a follow-up call about his death that never came and that the prison failed to return his belongings, including his wallet and Social Security card; and that Cole had told his family guards at Wilcox were tied to gangs, with gang members signing off on actions for the guards. An earlier AJC report, dated January 21, 2025, 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. The AJC also reported that GDC was investigating 42 deaths as possible homicides in the first six months of 2025, against 66 suspected prison homicides in all of 2024, and that the Legislature approved $434 million in new GDC funding.

In 2026, GDC described a September 3 altercation in which Maurice Brown died and several others were injured as gang-related; his body was sent to the GBI Crime Lab and the death is under investigation by GDC's Office of Professional Standards, and the prison was placed on lockdown. Seven inmates were taken to hospitals, two by airlift. Secondhand accounts circulating in a GDC-related Telegram group described a much larger incident — roughly 30 people reportedly stabbed or injured — and another account described a TAC squad shakedown that recovered weapons followed by a stabbing death; those reports identified no responsible party, and initial reports that a guard had been stabbed were disputed. A further event record, dated September 18, 2026, describes a gang-related fight at Wilcox killing one and injuring nine, and a report that the prison was no longer on lockdown.

Deaths recorded during her tenure at Wilcox State Prison

• Maurice Antonio Brown died September 3, 2026, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as homicide.
• Willie Thomas Mosley died December 1, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists natural/medical, age 63.
• Stacy Ray Bullard died November 8, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists overdose, age 54.
• Collis Jr Welch died November 7, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists overdose, age 55.
• Harold Stanley Hester died July 10, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists natural/medical, age 78.
• Ian Rashod Henry died June 22, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists homicide, age 29.
• Dominique Cornelius Cole died June 8, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists homicide, age 37.
• Terry Alan Roper died June 6, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists natural/medical, age 70.
• Roy Lee Gates died May 16, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists natural/medical, age 39.
• Thomas Leonardo Schwartz died May 14, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists natural/medical, age 59.
• Darrius Jerrod Zanders died May 5, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists suicide, age 33.
• Daylyne Collins died April 20, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists homicide, age 30.
• Raymond Trey Moody died March 11, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS does not yet know the cause, listed as unknown/pending, age 37.
• Keith Wingo died January 16, 2025, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists natural/medical.
• James Edward Hogan died December 10, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists overdose, age 32.
• Rodney Hurley died November 9, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists natural/medical, age 56.
• George Luis Morales died October 28, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists natural/medical, age 75.
• Alexander S Grimes died October 9, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists overdose, age 44.
• Rodney Whatley died October 5, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists homicide, age 54.
• Mariol Juante Rawls died August 27, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists homicide, age 41.
• Jody Cris Jones died August 21, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists natural/medical, age 52.
• Arthur Jerome Williams died July 19, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists homicide, age 55.
• Kevin Joseph Degraft died February 12, 2024, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists overdose, age 40.
• Richard Amos died December 17, 2023, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists natural/medical, age 77.
• Brian Michael Niehaus died August 23, 2023, at Wilcox State Prison; the registry lists natural/medical, age 51.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — September 16, 2025 report on Georgia prison homicides, carrying the DOJ findings, the contraband-arrest claims and the allegations concerning Dominique Cole's family and guards at Wilcox State Prison.
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — January 21, 2025 investigative report on prison system failures and the death of James Wheeler at Wilcox State Prison.
• Georgia Department of Corrections — incident and death statements on the September 3, 2023 gang-related fight, the early-2025 stabbing incident, and the September 3, 2026 altercation and lockdown; GDC Office of Professional Standards investigation of Maurice Brown's death.
• Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger (Open Records) — $13,000 liability payout tied to Wilcox State Prison, 2023 incident.
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak death registry — 43 deaths attributed to Jones's leadership tenure at Wilcox State Prison, with names, dates and causes as listed above.
• GPS case submissions and Telegram-group reports — unverified 2026 accounts of a shakedown, a stabbing death and a large-scale injury incident at Wilcox State Prison.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 11, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.