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Kelley, Tina
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
Tina Kelley's GDC career began in 2003 as a correctional officer at Smith State Prison, a role she held again in 2015. From 2016 through 2024 she worked in behavioral health, serving as a Behavioral Health Counselor 2 at Georgia State Prison (2018, 2021) and, from 2016 to 2023, in counselor positions that carried no facility assignment in the salary records. She moved to Montgomery State Prison as a Behavioral Health Counselor 3 in 2022 and to Emanuel Women's Facility in the same title in 2023, where she was also recorded as a Behavioral Health Counselor Supervisor on Nov. 22, 2023, and again in a supervisor role through Sept. 15, 2024.
On Sept. 16, 2024, Kelley entered facility leadership as Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment at Rogers State Prison, and by 2025 was recorded as Deputy Warden at the same facility. Per GPS records, five deaths are attributed to her leadership tenure, all of them at Rogers State Prison. No news reports in the records name Kelley directly, and GPS's incident and intelligence listings for her facilities contain no entries dated within her leadership tenure.
What happened on their watch
Rogers State Prison — Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment (from Sept. 16, 2024), then Deputy Warden (2025). Five deaths are attributed to Kelley's tenure at Rogers, per GPS records. The earliest fell 12 days into her leadership there: Taylor Anthony Hunt, 29, died Sept. 28, 2024, while Kelley held the Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment role. The remaining four occurred under her Deputy Warden title: David Edward Wood died Feb. 4, 2025 (no age recorded); Justin Waymon Hollingsworth, 43, died June 26, 2025; Randy Eugene Stewart, 60, died July 17, 2025; and John Meeks, 49, died Feb. 19, 2026. Three of the five decedents were in their 40s or younger, and the records carry no public narrative for any of the deaths — each is documented only by date, age, coded cause classification, and facility. GPS's incident and intelligence listings contain no reports or events at Rogers dated inside Kelley's leadership tenure, and no news coverage in the records names her.
The records also show earlier facility postings in non-leadership roles: Smith State Prison as a correctional officer (2003; 2015), Georgia State Prison as a Behavioral Health Counselor 2 (2018; 2021), Montgomery State Prison as a Behavioral Health Counselor 3 (2022), and Emanuel Women's Facility as a Behavioral Health Counselor 3 (2023) and supervisor (Nov. 22, 2023). Incident data for those periods is not covered by the provided lists.
Litigation
- Daker v. Bryson, No. 5:16-cv-00538 (U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia), filed Dec. 7, 2016, terminated June 9, 2017. Kelley is listed as a defendant. The filing predates her facility-leadership tenures; at the time she held a behavioral health counselor role. No outcome amount is recorded, and the docket entry documents termination only.
Sources
- CourtListener docket — Daker v. Bryson, 5:16-cv-00538 (GAMD), filed 2016, terminated 2017
- GPS personnel and salary records — GDC position history for Tina Kelley, 2003–2026
- GPS mortality records — five deaths at Rogers State Prison during Kelley's Deputy Warden tenures (2024–2026)
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Warden | ROGERS STATE PRISON | 2026-08-27 → present |
| 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 Spv | EMANUEL WOMEN’S FACILITY | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2024-09-28 | TAYLOR ANTHONY HUNT | 29 | ROGERS STATE PRISON | Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment |
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