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Jones, Lutria Jamil
On GDC's 2025 payroll
Profile written September 23, 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
Lutria Jamil Jones spent 2017 through 2021 in behavioral-health positions inside the Georgia Department of Corrections — Behavioral Health Counselor 2 (2017), Behavioral Health Counselor 3 (2018–2019), and Behavioral Health Counselor Supervisor (2020–2021) — none of which are leadership-tier roles. In 2022 Jones moved into custody leadership as Deputy Warden at Ware State Prison, a post the records continue to show through a single-date entry on Aug. 27, 2026.
Per GPS's records, 69 deaths are attributed to Jones's leadership tenure, all of them at Ware State Prison. Decedents in the records run from 2022 into September 2026, with Jones listed as Deputy Warden at the time of each. Two federal lawsuits filed in the Southern District of Georgia list Jones as a defendant in GPS's docket records. No news items in the dataset name Jones directly.
What happened on their watch
Behavioral-health roles, 2017–2021 (no facility recorded). Jones held non-leadership counselor and supervisor positions. GPS attributes no leadership-tier deaths to these years.
Ware State Prison — Deputy Warden, 2022–present. All 69 deaths attributed to Jones's tenure occurred here, where Jones was Deputy Warden. The records name several decedents and the assault mechanisms recorded by GDC incident data: Va'Darian Carr, 26, stab wounds to the chest and back (Sept. 18, 2022); Kyle Strother, 31, stab wound to the chest (June 5, 2022); Alfonso Moore, 30, blunt impact to the head (June 19, 2023); Thomas McCoy, 38, stab wound to the chest, with three other prisoners involved (Oct. 7, 2023); Leonardo Anderson, 49, multiple stab wounds (April 20, 2024); Christopher Michael Drake Taylor, 33, stab wound to the torso (May 28, 2024); and Samuel Keith Ellis, 31, multiple sharp force injuries, with three inmates involved (Aug. 1, 2024). Ages among the decedents GPS names range from 24 to 85.
Two deaths on Jones's watch share a documented pattern. Ted Daniel Karras, 67, died Dec. 20, 2024, and Charles Johnny Rice, 62, died April 27, 2025 — roughly four months apart, both at Ware. GPS classifies both as homicides; the Georgia Bureau of Investigation certified the manner of death as undetermined in each. Per GPS's records, those classifications rest on the autopsies: in Karras's case a complete autopsy found neck compression and the pathologist wrote that "homicidal strangulation cannot be excluded"; in Rice's case the pathologist could not determine whether the death was "a suicidal hanging or a homicidal smothering or strangulation with postmortem positioning of the body."
Two records of outside scrutiny overlap this posting. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Jan. 21, 2025, citing GDC incident reports, that ten inmates were killed at Ware between July 2020 and August 2024, with multiple inmates involved in several of the homicides. GPB reported on Oct. 1, 2024, that Narissa Wright alleges no counts or welfare checks were conducted at Ware, allowing her son DonTavis Mintz's body to go undiscovered for days; the record states she could identify her son's remains by a single tooth. GPS's event data also records a riot at Ware on July 12, 2025 and a subsequent punitive lockdown. Separately, the state's DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger records a $20,000 liability payout tied to Ware (2023 incident) involving Jimmy Mack Rice. GPS's event data dates a Kojack Thomas Jr. death, age 27, to May 31, 2024, while its decedent list carries a Kojack Junior Thomas, 27, at May 31, 2026; the two records conflict on the year.
Litigation
- Brown v. Odum, No. 5:25-cv-00062 (S.D. Ga.), filed June 30, 2025 — pending; GPS docket records list Jones as a defendant. CourtListener docket 70675644.
- Jackson v. Odum, No. 5:25-cv-00051 (S.D. Ga.), filed June 9, 2025 — pending; GPS docket records list Jones as a defendant. CourtListener docket 70496511.
Both dockets are captioned against Odum; the underlying allegations are not summarized in the records provided.
Sources
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — homicide count at Ware State Prison, July 2020–August 2024, drawing on GDC incident reports (Jan. 21, 2025)
- Georgia Public Broadcasting — Narissa Wright allegations regarding counts and welfare checks at Ware (Oct. 1, 2024)
- Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger (open records) — $20,000 Ware State Prison payout, 2023 incident
- CourtListener federal dockets — Brown v. Odum (5:25-cv-00062); Jackson v. Odum (5:25-cv-00051)
- GDC incident report data as cited by the AJC; GDC personnel and salary records; Georgia Bureau of Investigation manner-of-death certifications as recorded for Karras and Rice
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Warden | WARE STATE PRISON | 2026-08-27 → present |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | WARE STATE PRISON | 2022-01-01 → present |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR SPV | 2020-01-01 → 2021-12-31 | |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 3 | 2018-01-01 → 2019-12-31 | |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 2 | 2017-01-01 → 2017-12-31 |
Lawsuits as defendant
| Case # | Court | Filed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:25-cv-00062 | GASD | 2025-06-30 | pending |
| 5:25-cv-00051 | GASD | 2025-06-09 | pending |
Deaths attributed during tenure
69 people died at facilities under Jones, Lutria Jamil's leadership.
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