MacK, Carnesia Renee

Tenure Summary

Carnesia Renee MacK's Georgia Department of Corrections career spans roughly seventeen years, beginning as a Correctional Officer at Georgia State Prison in 2009 and moving to Coastal State Prison in 2017 as a Recruitment Lieutenant. From 2018 through 2025 she held unit-supervisor posts at Coastal — listed as Unit Manager and later as CSM Correctional Unit Manager — with an annual salary rising from $52,325.68 in 2021 to $68,521.20 in 2025, per GDC salary records. On April 16, 2026, she moved into facility leadership as Deputy Warden of Security at McRae Women's Facility, a post the records list without an end date; a separate single-day "Deputy Warden" entry at McRae is dated August 27, 2026.

GPS attributes 3 deaths to her leadership tenure. All three occurred at McRae Women's Facility and all three fell within her tenure as Deputy Warden of Security, in May 2026. No lawsuits in GPS records name her as a defendant. Her previous postings at Coastal State Prison overlapped with facility-level litigation, settlements, and a federal investigation, but GPS attributes no deaths to her leadership roles at that facility.

What happened on their watch

Georgia State Prison (Correctional Officer, 2009). A staff-tier posting, not a facility leadership role. GPS attributes no deaths to this tenure.

Coastal State Prison (Recruitment Lieutenant 2017; Unit Manager 2018 and 2021–2025). GPS attributes no deaths to MacK's leadership roles at Coastal. The facility's record during those years is documented at the institutional level: the DOJ's 2024 investigation concluded that Georgia prisons, including Coastal, failed to protect inmates from violence, neglect, and unconstitutional conditions. A lawsuit filed in January 2025 alleges five inmates stabbed Kion E. Parks to death at Coastal on September 14, 2021, and a suit filed by Rufus Ramon Lee's mother alleges a broken cell lock allowed assailants from other cells and dorms to reach and kill her son on December 14, 2021 — both deaths occurred while MacK held the Unit Manager post. Other deaths recorded at Coastal in overlapping years include Raymond Littles, 49, classified as a homicide on April 16, 2024, with another prisoner disciplined; Ryan Chase Archer, 25, stabbed on December 13, 2023; and Salomon Andres Ramirez, 43, whose October 20, 2023 death GDC classified as an apparent homicide. The Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger records liability payouts tied to Coastal, including $600,000 (Dennis Carpenter, 2022 incident) and $200,000 (Joel Greene, 2019). Public coverage of a "human rights crisis" at Coastal — WTOC reporting in February 2026 citing workers and inmates — and an April 23, 2026 Department of Public Health inspection that scored the facility 70 for roaches, a dead mouse, mold, and unsafe food temperatures postdate the end of MacK's listed Coastal tenure. GPS-held witness accounts posted publicly in August and September 2026 describe violence at Coastal and reference 103 documented deaths at the facility across a 2021–2026 window; these are witness allegations, not adjudicated findings.

McRae Women's Facility (Deputy Warden of Security, from April 16, 2026). GPS attributes 3 deaths to this tenure, all recorded in May 2026: Kristal Lyn Layne, 55, on May 10; Shannon Michelle Rush, 43, on May 16; and Chasity King, 26, on May 18. GPS records assign each the same cause-category code and do not state a cause of death. Two of the three entries carry notes indicating they were auto-promoted from user-submitted death reports (GPS-DEATH-2026-D61CA and GPS-DEATH-2026-882AA). GPS holds no lawsuits naming MacK as a defendant in connection with these deaths, and the input contains no intel reports or news mentions tied to McRae Women's Facility.

Sources

• GPS mortality records — three deaths at McRae Women's Facility, May 2026 (Layne, Rush, King)
• GPS personnel and salary records — GDC positions, 2009–2026
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia prison homicides tracker and prison-failures investigation (Parks, Lee, Peters coverage)
• WTOC — "Workers, inmates report human rights crisis at Coastal State Prison," Feb. 12, 2026
• The Georgia Virtue — Coastal State Prison health inspection coverage
• WALB — reporting on Coastal State Prison assault/investigation records
• U.S. Department of Justice — 2024 investigation into Georgia prison conditions
• Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger (Open Records) — Coastal State Prison payouts
• Facebook public posts — witness accounts of conditions at Coastal State Prison, Aug.–Sept. 2026
• Georgia Department of Public Health — Coastal State Prison inspection, April 23, 2026

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 13, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.