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Kelley, Tina

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Profile written July 12, 2026

Current Position Deputy Warden Of Care And Treatment Rogers State Prison

Salary $62,976 2025 · state payroll

Deaths Under Their Watch 5 during their tenure

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

Tina Kelley’s career in the Georgia Department of Corrections spanned more than two decades, from correctional officer at Smith State Prison in 2003 to a series of behavioral health counselor positions, before reaching the deputy warden tier in 2024. GPS records attribute five deaths to facilities where Kelley held a leadership role—all at Rogers State Prison during her tenure as Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment (September 2024–present) and Deputy Warden (2025).

What happened on their watch

Rogers State Prison (Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment / Deputy Warden, 2024–present) During Kelley’s leadership at Rogers State Prison, five incarcerated people died. The first death occurred on September 27, 2024, just eleven days after she became Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment: Taylor Anthony Hunt, 29, died of a cause categorized as 6 in GPS records. While no coroner record is attached in the dataset, GPS intelligence records note that the death was officially ruled a suicide but that evidence—including ligature marks, broken bones, bruises, and puncture and stab wounds—raised suspicions of homicide. These allegations remain unadjudicated. On February 4, 2025, David Edward Wood died of natural causes; a coroner record lists coronary atherosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease complicated by Influenza A as the primary cause. On June 26, 2025, Justin Waymon Hollingsworth, 43, died by suicide—hanging in a one-man cell, according to a GBI medical examiner’s report that pegged the manner as suicide. On July 17, 2025, Randy Eugene Stewart, 60, died of natural causes: E. coli peritonitis from a perforated duodenum, with contributing conditions of diabetes, hypertension, cirrhosis, and chronic hepatitis C, per the coroner. The fifth death, John Meeks, 49, on February 19, 2026, is also classified as cause category 6; no coroner record is included, and no further details are available in the provided data. Intel records also mention a “Guard Stabbing Incident” at Rogers State Prison in 2026, but specifics remain unreported. Kelley’s earlier roles as a staff‑level behavioral health counselor at other facilities—including Emanuel Women’s Facility in 2023, a facility where a former medical director was linked to 22 deaths a decade earlier—are outside the leadership accountability tier, and no deaths are attributed to those tenures.

Litigation

Daker v. Bryson, 5:16-cv-00538 (GAMD), filed December 7, 2016, terminated June 9, 2017. Kelley was named as a defendant, per court records. The case was closed without a recorded monetary outcome.

Sources

GPS structured personnel and death records — positions, total deaths attributed, deaths by facility, and individual decedent entries (Hunt, Wood, Hollingsworth, Stewart, Meeks)
Tattnall County coroner records — Stewart, Hollingsworth, Wood (cause and manner determinations)
GBI Medical Examiner limited autopsy report — Hollingsworth
GPS intelligence records — multiple allegations concerning Taylor Hunt’s death and a “Guard Stabbing Incident” at Rogers State Prison
CourtListener / U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia — Daker v. Bryson docket

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Jul 12, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.

Positions Held

Title	Facility	Tenure
DEPUTY WARDEN	ROGERS STATE PRISON	2025-01-01 → present
Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment	ROGERS STATE PRISON	2024-09-16 → present
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR SPV		2024-01-01 → 2024-09-15
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 3	EMANUEL WOMEN’S FACILITY	2023-01-01 → 2023-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 3	MONTGOMERY STATE PRISON	2022-01-01 → 2022-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 2	GEORGIA STATE PRISON	2021-01-01 → 2021-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 2		2019-01-01 → 2020-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 2	GEORGIA STATE PRISON	2018-01-01 → 2018-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 2		2016-01-01 → 2017-12-31
CORRECTIONS OFFICER( AL)	SMITH STATE PRISON	2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31
Correctional Officer	SMITH STATE PRISON	2003-01-01 → 2003-12-31

Lawsuits as defendant

Case #	Court	Filed	Status
3:22-cv-00030	GASD	2022-04-04	terminated
5:16-cv-00538	GAMD	2016-12-07	terminated

Deaths attributed during tenure

5 people died at facilities under Kelley, Tina's leadership.

Date	Decedent	Age	Facility	Role at time
2026-02-19	JOHN MEEKS	49	ROGERS STATE PRISON	DEPUTY WARDEN
2025-07-17	RANDY EUGENE STEWART	60	ROGERS STATE PRISON	DEPUTY WARDEN
2025-06-26	JUSTIN WAYMON HOLLINGSWORTH	43	ROGERS STATE PRISON	DEPUTY WARDEN
2025-02-04	David Edward Wood	—	ROGERS STATE PRISON	DEPUTY WARDEN
2024-09-27	TAYLOR ANTHONY HUNT	29	ROGERS STATE PRISON	Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment

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