Kellom, Jimmy J

Tenure Summary

Jimmy J. Kellom's career with the Georgia Department of Corrections, as documented in GPS personnel records, spans roughly two decades and is centered on Wilcox State Prison in south Georgia. He first appears as a correctional officer at Wilcox in 2005, returned in 2015 as a corrections officer, and rose there through corrections officer II (2016–2018) and correctional sergeant (2019–2021). From 2022 through 2025 he held unit-supervisor posts at Telfair State Prison — CSM correctional lieutenant (2022), CSM correctional captain (2023), and CSM correctional unit manager (2024–2025). On May 1, 2026, he returned to Wilcox as Deputy Warden of Security, a facility-deputy post, and is listed in the record as active.

Two deaths are attributed to his leadership tenure, both at Wilcox State Prison and both during his Deputy Warden of Security posting: Gary Dwayne Felver, 65, on June 15, 2026, and Maurice Antonio Brown on Sept. 3, 2026. The record contains no lawsuit naming Kellom as a defendant, and no news reports naming him directly.

What happened on their watch

Wilcox State Prison — correctional officer (2005); corrections officer through correctional sergeant (2015–2021). Personnel records place Kellom at Wilcox in these staff-tier roles, with his salary rising from $28,304.16 in 2015 to $48,854.74 as a sergeant in 2021. These are the role and dates the record documents; GPS's facility-level incident and intel lists cover only leadership-tier tenures.

Telfair State Prison — CSM correctional lieutenant (2022), CSM correctional captain (2023), CSM correctional unit manager (2024–2025). Unit-supervisor roles at Telfair. GPS's facility-death tally attributes no deaths to these postings.

Wilcox State Prison — Deputy Warden of Security (from May 1, 2026). Both deaths attributed to Kellom's tenure occurred in this posting, and both are attributed to Wilcox. Felver died June 15, 2026, at age 65; the record carries no public narrative for his death. Brown died Sept. 3, 2026, also with no narrative recorded.

Around Brown's death, GPS event records log a sequence at Wilcox. On Sept. 3, per those records, an altercation involving multiple inmates left one inmate dead and several injured — described elsewhere in the same records as a gang-related fight in which seven inmates were taken to hospitals, two of them airlifted, and two others treated on site; no staff were reported injured. Brown is named as the inmate killed, and his body was sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab to determine an official cause of death. On Sept. 4, the GDC's Office of Professional Standards opened an investigation into the death, and the prison was placed on lockdown until further notice, according to GDC officials. A further intel event dated Sept. 18, 2026 records a gang-related fight at Wilcox described as killing one inmate and injuring nine others; that event is not counted among the two deaths the record attributes to Kellom's tenure under his Deputy Warden of Security role.

Sources

• Georgia Prisoners' Speak personnel records — Kellom's position and salary history, 2005–2026, including Wilcox and Telfair State Prison postings
• GDC Office of Professional Standards — investigation opened Sept. 4, 2026 into the death of Maurice Brown at Wilcox
• Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab — received Brown's body for official cause-of-death determination
• GPS incident and intel records — Wilcox State Prison events of June 15 and Sept. 3–18, 2026, logged against the Deputy Warden of Security role

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 23, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.