Kellom, Jimmy J

Tenure Summary

Jimmy J Kellom's GDC career began at Wilcox State Prison, where records show him as a correctional officer in 2005, then again as a correctional officer from 2015 through 2018 and as a correctional sergeant from 2019 through 2021. In 2022 he moved to Telfair State Prison as a CSM correctional lieutenant, was recorded as a CSM correctional captain in 2023, and as a CSM correctional unit manager for 2024 and 2025. On May 1, 2026, he took the Deputy Warden of Security post at Wilcox State Prison; the records also carry a "Deputy Warden" title dated Aug. 27, 2026. He is listed as active.

Two deaths are attributed to his leadership tenures, both at Wilcox State Prison and both recorded while he held the Deputy Warden of Security role there. No lawsuits naming him as a defendant appear in these records.

What happened on their watch

Telfair State Prison — CSM correctional lieutenant (2022), CSM correctional captain (2023), CSM correctional unit manager (2024–2025). These records attribute no deaths to his Telfair postings; both deaths in the registry are tied to Wilcox State Prison.

Wilcox State Prison — Deputy Warden of Security (from May 1, 2026). Two deaths are attributed to this tenure:

• Gary Dwayne Felver died June 15, 2026, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's death registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending. He was 65.
• Maurice Antonio Brown died September 3, 2026, at Wilcox State Prison; GPS's death registry lists the cause as Homicide.

Wilcox entries during this tenure include a May 18, 2026 inmate report describing a gang-related altercation that left multiple incarcerated people slashed or stabbed and requiring medical treatment, prompting a facility lockdown. A public Facebook post dated May 12, 2026, with apparent insider knowledge, alleges that the facility repeatedly reduced inmate movement to minimal staffing during on-clock senior staff gatherings and that its budgeted annual issuance of hygiene items, undergarments and bedding had lapsed for roughly a year — an allegation, not a finding.

Brown's death followed a September 3, 2026 altercation involving multiple inmates that left one person dead and several injured; GDC described the fight as gang-related, and records state seven inmates were taken to hospitals, two of them airlifted, with no staff injured. The body was sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab for an official cause of death, and the death is under investigation by GDC's Office of Professional Standards. Wilcox was placed on lockdown until further notice as of September 4, 2026, per GDC officials. Reports circulating in a GDC-related Telegram group described a far larger incident — roughly 30 people reportedly stabbed or injured, with up to seven airlifted — and a separate report stated that shortly after a TAC squad shakedown of a dorm recovered weapons, an incarcerated person was attacked and stabbed to death, with initial reports that a guard had been stabbed disputed. A later inmate report dated September 18, 2026, indicated the lockdown had lifted. These records also carry a September 18, 2026 incident entry titled "Gang-related fight at Wilcox State Prison kills one, injures nine," described as occurring two weeks before the Telfair incident; no Telfair event is carried in this data.

Sources

• GDC Office of Professional Standards — investigation of the September 3, 2026 death at Wilcox State Prison
• Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab — cause-of-death determination referenced in incident records
• Facebook (public post) — May 12, 2026 allegation regarding Wilcox staffing levels and lapsed personal-supply issuance
• GDC-related Telegram group reports — September 3, 2026 secondhand accounts of a mass stabbing and airlifts at Wilcox
• Inmate reports submitted to GPS — Wilcox lockdown (May 18 and September 18, 2026) and post-shakedown stabbing account (September 3, 2026)
• Local news, as cited in an inmate report — one death and several injuries reported at Wilcox
• GPS death registry — deaths of Maurice Antonio Brown (September 3, 2026) and Gary Dwayne Felver (June 15, 2026) at Wilcox State Prison
• GDC position and salary records — Kellom's postings at Wilcox and Telfair State Prisons

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.