MacK, Carnesia Renee

Tenure Summary

Carnesia Renee MacK’s GDC record begins with a correctional officer posting at Georgia State Prison in 2009. She later moved to Coastal State Prison, serving as Recruitment Lieutenant in 2017, Unit Manager in 2018, and CSM Correctional Unit Manager from 2021 through 2025. Effective April 16, 2026, she became Deputy Warden of Security at McRae Women’s Facility; a same-day record dated August 27, 2026, lists her as Deputy Warden there. GPS records attribute a total of 3 deaths to her leadership tenure, all at McRae Women’s Facility. GPS records list no lawsuits naming MacK as a defendant.

What happened on their watch

Georgia State Prison (2009)

GPS records attribute no deaths to MacK’s year as a correctional officer at Georgia State Prison. The later facility-level deaths, lawsuits, and settlements reflected in the GPS intelligence record fall outside her 2009 posting and are not tied to her.

Coastal State Prison (2017; 2018; 2021–2025)

GPS records attribute no deaths to MacK’s Coastal State Prison postings. During her later years there as a unit manager, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a 2024 investigation finding that Georgia prisons, including Coastal State, were failing to protect incarcerated people from violence and neglect and were violating the Eighth Amendment. According to WTOC reporting collected in the GPS record, workers and inmates at Coastal State alleged regular beatings, withholding of food, black mold, infestations, and prolonged lockdowns. These facility-level allegations are not attributed to MacK individually in the provided records.

McRae Women’s Facility (April 2026–present)

GPS records attribute three deaths to MacK’s tenure as Deputy Warden of Security at McRae Women’s Facility. The decedents are Kristal Lyn Layne, 55, with an incident date of May 10, 2026; Shannon Michelle Rush, 43, on May 16, 2026; and Chasity King, 26, on May 18, 2026. All three are recorded under cause category 6. Two of the records are noted as auto-promoted from user reports; no published cause of death is provided for any of the three. No lawsuits naming MacK as a defendant appear in the GPS records.

Sources

• GPS personnel and mortality records
• U.S. Department of Justice — 2024 investigation into Georgia prison conditions
• WTOC — reporting on worker and inmate allegations at Coastal State Prison

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 6, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.