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McDaniel, Derrick B
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Profile written August 30, 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
Derrick B. McDaniel’s GPS personnel file traces a path from entry-level custody posts to facility leadership: correctional officer in 2015, correctional sergeant in 2016, correctional lieutenant in 2017 and 2018, correctional sergeant again in 2019 and 2020, and correctional unit manager in 2021. Beginning in 2022, McDaniel moved into the deputy warden post at Macon State Prison, a role listed in salary records through 2025, with a specific personnel record dated Nov. 22, 2023. GPS records attribute 69 deaths at Macon State Prison to McDaniel’s deputy warden tenure. No lawsuits naming McDaniel personally as a defendant appear in the provided records.
What happened on their watch
Macon State Prison — Deputy Warden (2022 onward)
The death records tied to McDaniel’s tenure as deputy warden span late 2022 into 2026. GPS records show 69 deaths attributed to Macon State Prison during that period. The sampled records include homicide-classified deaths, suicides, and cases listed as undetermined or awaiting autopsy.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Georgia prison homicides investigation, multiple Macon State Prison deaths during this period were linked to inmate-on-inmate assaults, including Dan Brooks (Aug. 21, 2022, stab wound of the neck), Kendrick Brown (Oct. 16, 2022, blunt force head injury), Kevin Deshawn Lamar (Aug. 10, 2023, sharp force chest trauma), Taurean Dante Hardy (Dec. 10, 2023, homicide), Reginald Lamar Ginn (Mar. 13, 2024, blunt force head trauma), Kenneth Keith Malcom (Feb. 12, 2024, sharp force trauma to the head, neck, torso and upper extremities), Mathis Lee Ward (June 8, 2024, sharp force chest and neck trauma with a homemade sharp instrument), Shannon Wayne Pickett (July 21, 2024, exsanguination and sharp force trauma), Jarod Quayshawn Williams (July 17, 2024, inmate-to-inmate assault), and Keith Antwone Green (Aug. 30, 2024, inmate-to-inmate assault).
GPS prisoner-sourced records also mark 2025 deaths in the “hole” as homicides, including D’Andrius Brown (Mar. 23, 2025) and Marquel Smith (Feb. 14, 2025). The GDC’s January 2025 mortality data listed Jonathan Mitchell’s death as “homicide due to head trauma”; the AJC reported that Jon Edward Pippin was accused of beating Mitchell with his foot, knee and fist.
On suicide-classified deaths, Calvin Earl Noble (Aug. 26, 2025) was reported to GPS as a suicide by hanging in a tier 2 dorm one-man cell, and Cassiem Mahlon Johnson (Aug. 25, 2025) was reported as a suicide by a source on Telegram. The record for David Gill (Jan. 30, 2025) shows a conflict: GDC’s released January 2025 mortality report listed “suicide due to a drug overdose,” but a GBI medical examiner report later certified the cause as sudden cardiac death and manner natural, contradicting the GDC entry. GDC’s January 2025 data also listed James McDougal’s death as “undetermined/awaiting autopsy report.”
Broader facility conditions documented during McDaniel’s tenure include an October 2024 U.S. Department of Justice report describing assaults, stabbings and rapes as routine at understaffed Georgia prisons, according to a GPS intel event. AJC reporting stated that about two-thirds of correctional officer jobs at Macon State Prison were unfilled as of October 2024, and that a coroner reported only five to eight officers staffing the entire facility when responding to deaths. In January 2025, the Southern Center for Human Rights filed a lawsuit over conditions at Macon State Prison, alleging 96 men shared a single toilet and describing inadequate bedding and hygiene; the provided records do not name McDaniel in that filing. GPS intel records also describe the September 2024 arrest of four Macon State Prison correctional officers on charges of violating their oath and providing false statements, and federal drug-trafficking cases in which Macon State Prison inmates were accused of directing operations by contraband cellphone.
Sources
- GPS personnel and mortality records
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia prison homicides investigation
- GDC January 2025 mortality data (released PDF)
- GBI Medical Examiner report for David Gill (ME-25-40093)
- U.S. Department of Justice report on Georgia prison conditions (October 2024)
- Southern Center for Human Rights lawsuit filings (January 2025)
- 13WMAZ — Macon State Prison drug trafficking reporting
- CBS News Miami — Rodney Edward Smith fraud allegation
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Warden | MACON STATE PRISON | 2026-08-27 → present |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | MACON STATE PRISON | 2022-01-01 → present |
| Deputy Warden | MACON STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| CORRECTIONAL UNIT MANAGER | 2021-01-01 → 2021-12-31 | |
| CORRECTIONAL SERGEANT | 2019-01-01 → 2020-12-31 | |
| CORRECTIONAL LIEUTENANT | 2017-01-01 → 2018-12-31 | |
| CORRECTIONAL SERGEANT | 2016-01-01 → 2016-12-31 | |
| CORRECTIONS OFFICER (SP) | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
69 people died at facilities under McDaniel, Derrick B's leadership.
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