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Lawson, Nancy LEE
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Profile written August 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
GPS records document Nancy LEE Lawson as a Georgia Department of Corrections employee in a series of supervisory custody posts. She is listed as a corrections officer in 2015, a CSM correctional lieutenant in 2016, a CSM correctional captain from 2017 through 2020, and a CSM correctional unit manager from 2021 through 2023; those earlier entries carry no facility name. In 2024 and 2025, Lawson is listed as Deputy Warden at Macon State Prison. Across that facility-leader tenure, GPS records attribute 50 deaths to Macon State Prison. The structured data lists no lawsuits naming Lawson as a defendant.
What happened on their watch
Macon State Prison — Deputy Warden (2024–2025)
GPS records attribute 50 deaths to Macon State Prison while Lawson held the deputy warden role there; the death entries associated with that role run from January 2024 through mid-2026. A cluster of 2024 deaths is coded by GPS as homicide, with the AJC’s Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation reporting causes such as sharp-force trauma to Kenneth Keith Malcom (Feb. 12, 2024), blunt-force head trauma to Reginald Lamar Ginn (March 13, 2024), sharp-force chest trauma to Devontae Marquez Young (May 10, 2024), sharp-force chest and neck trauma to Mathis Lee Ward (June 8, 2024), inmate-on-inmate assault killing Jarod Quayshawn Williams (July 17, 2024), exsanguination and sharp-force trauma killing Shannon Wayne Pickett (July 21, 2024), and inmate-on-inmate assault killing Keith Antwone Green (Aug. 30, 2024). Later deaths in the record include Sanchez Jackson (June 19, 2025), Marquis Young (Oct. 22, 2025), and Brett Michael Scudder (June 20, 2026). Many other entries carry cause category 6, which GPS records connect to undetermined or awaiting-autopsy findings in at least one case; those entries skew older, including Lynn Alexander Durett, 74; Randall Allen Cleveland, 77; and Michael Tony Cooper, 73. Two entries are coded as suicide: Calvin Earl Noble, 25, and Cassiem Mahlon Johnson, 55. The record for David Gill, 34, shows conflicting documentation: a GDC January 2025 mortality PDF listed “Suicide due to a Drug Overdose,” but a later GBI medical examiner certification gave the cause as sudden cardiac death and manner natural, according to GPS records.
Beyond individual deaths, GPS event and intelligence records for Macon State Prison document systemic allegations and incidents overlapping Lawson’s deputy warden tenure. A DOJ report released in October 2024 described assaults, stabbings, and rapes as routine at woefully understaffed Georgia prisons, per a GPS-recorded summary. The AJC reported that about two-thirds of correctional-officer jobs at Macon State Prison were unfilled as of October 2024, and that the coroner reported only five to eight officers staffing the facility when responding to deaths. GPS record entries also note a Southern Center for Human Rights lawsuit filed Jan. 24, 2025, over inadequate bedding and hygiene at Macon, with 96 men sharing a single toilet; a September 2024 arrest of four Macon correctional officers on charges of violating their oath and making false statements; and federal drug-trafficking prosecutions of inmates Devito Duran Young and Trace Works, accused of running a fentanyl and synthetic-cannabinoid scheme from Macon via contraband phones. GPS intelligence entries further contain multiple reports describing prisoner Glen Christian Krauch as tortured and left with brain bleeds, broken ribs, and other severe injuries at Macon in 2024 and 2025. No court records in the structured data name Lawson as a defendant.
Sources
- GPS personnel and mortality records — structured dataset for Nancy LEE Lawson
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation; homicide cause-of-death data and Macon State Prison understaffing reporting
- U.S. Department of Justice — October 2024 report on conditions in Georgia prisons, via GPS event record
- Southern Center for Human Rights — Macon State Prison conditions lawsuit filing, Jan. 24, 2025, via GPS event record
- GDC official mortality reports — January 2025 PDF and CY2024 mortality report
- GBI Medical Examiner — report for David Gill, ME-25-40093
- 13WMAZ — Macon State Prison drug-trafficking prosecutions
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| DEPUTY WARDEN | MACON STATE PRISON | 2024-01-01 → present |
| CSM Correctional Unit Manager | MACON STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL UNIT MANAGER | 2021-01-01 → 2023-12-31 | |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL CAPTAIN | 2017-01-01 → 2020-12-31 | |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL LIEUTENANT | 2016-01-01 → 2016-12-31 | |
| CORRECTIONS OFFICER (SP) | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
50 people died at facilities under Lawson, Nancy LEE's leadership.
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