Mahogany, Kasann

Tenure Summary

Kasann Mahogany joined the Georgia Department of Corrections in 2015 as a rehabilitation counselor, rising through behavioral health supervisory roles before transitioning to facility leadership. Since 2019, Mahogany has served continuously as Deputy Warden at Pulaski State Prison, a women's facility in Hawkinsville, Georgia. GPS records show 26 deaths attributed to Pulaski during Mahogany's tenure as Deputy Warden — 25 classified under cause category 6 and one (Denecia Nichelle Randall, age 28) recorded as a suspected suicide in lockdown in March 2026. No lawsuits name Mahogany as a defendant. The facility has been the subject of a DOJ investigation documenting constitutional violations, multiple AJC investigations into medical care failures and staff sexual misconduct, and ongoing reports of gang extortion and unsafe conditions.

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What Happened on Their Watch

Deputy Warden — Pulaski State Prison (2019–present)

Mahogany has held the Deputy Warden role at Pulaski State Prison continuously since 2019. GPS records attribute 26 deaths at the facility during this period. Twenty-five are classified under cause category 6; the ages of those individuals ranged from 27 to 78, with deaths spread across every year of Mahogany's tenure. The most recent of these — Ronika Lashawn Carswell (age 50, December 2025), Candace Lajon Morgan (age 41, June 2025), Esmeralda Carillo Hernandez (age 50, May 2025), and Stephanie Sabrina Gary (age 55, March 2025) — occurred within the past year. The twenty-sixth death, Denecia Nichelle Randall (age 28), occurred on March 30, 2026; a user report received by GPS alleges she was in lockdown at the time and died by suicide. GDC confirmed one death at Pulaski on that date; coroner records remain pending, per GPS reconciliation notes.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has reported allegations that Pulaski failed to provide adequate medical care to at least two incarcerated women during this period: Mollianne Fischer, who the AJC alleges was left in a vegetative state after inadequate care, and Bonnie Rocheleau, who the AJC alleges died after developing pneumonia without receiving adequate treatment. Both allegations are attributed to the AJC's investigation into GDC medical failures.

A DOJ investigation of Georgia prisons, covering conditions at Pulaski during 2022–2023, documented constitutional violations at the facility, per GPS records of that investigation. Mahogany held the Deputy Warden role throughout the period under DOJ scrutiny.

In May 2024, fellow Deputy Warden Alonzo L. McMillian was arrested and charged with sexual contact with a prisoner at Pulaski, with arrest warrants citing alleged incidents on February 24–25, 2024. GDC confirmed McMillian's termination on May 2, 2024. The AJC reported that the misconduct of two high-ranking prison supervisors — including one at Pulaski — could signal a broader systemic problem within GDC.

On July 15, 2023, an inmate disturbance at Pulaski involved 11 incarcerated people using weapons including shanks, a crowbar, and locks; nine security staff responded and chemical spray was deployed, per GPS records. GPS records also document reports of gang members using violence to extort incarcerated women and their families at Pulaski, with one reported extortion demand of $10,000. The AJC separately reported an allegation that officers failed to notice a prisoner being stabbed until an outside caller reported it, and that the prisoner had reported being assaulted by ten people hours earlier.

Beginning in early 2025 and continuing into 2026, GPS received multiple reports of retaliation, intimidation, extended lockdowns, and a non-functional grievance process at Pulaski under incoming Warden Wendy Jackson, overlapping with the final period of Mahogany's documented tenure.

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Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on medical care failures at Pulaski State Prison (Fischer, Rocheleau); reporting on sexual misconduct arrests of high-ranking GDC employees including Deputy Warden McMillian at Pulaski; reporting on staff failure to respond to prisoner stabbing at Pulaski
• DOJ Investigation of Georgia Prisons — documented constitutional violations at Pulaski State Prison, covering 2022–2023 period; GPS records of investigation events dated October 2023 and October 2024
• GPS records — 26 deaths attributed to Pulaski State Prison during Mahogany's Deputy Warden tenure; user reports regarding Randall death (March 2026); reconciliation notes on Randall incident; family report via Thasmia Foster (April 2026); gang extortion reports; disturbance record (July 15, 2023)
• GPS intel events — McMillian arrest and termination (May 2, 2024); Warden Wendy Jackson reports of retaliation and unsafe conditions (2025–2026); Pamela Dixon gang extortion report (2022, 2025)

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