McMillan, Meosha S

Tenure Summary

What happened on their watch

Emanuel Women’s Facility (Warden, 2017–2019)
GPS records list no deaths attributed to McMillan’s tenure leading this facility.

Pulaski State Prison (Warden, 2020–2022)
For the three calendar years McMillan served as warden, 14 deaths are recorded at the prison. The decedents, per the available sample, ranged in age from 27 to 78; cause‑of‑death categories are mostly undetermined (category 6), with one suicide. Among them, GPS records note that Melissa Christine Thacker, 27, died by suicide in July 2021 and had “a well‑documented prior history of mental illness and suicide attempts that … should have triggered preventive intervention.” Other deaths during her tenure include Sophia Brown, Judy Christian, Lakeysa Wigfall, Mozel Anderson, Brenda Ivie, Kathleen Murphy, Sandtoro Pearson, Tanya Abbs, Margaret Palmer, Sharon Fuquea, Tammy Baker, Monica Cutts, and Christina Buttery.

Pulaski was under a U.S. Department of Justice investigation for constitutional violations that spanned 2022‑2023, directly overlapping McMillan’s watch. An Atlanta Journal‑Constitution report also alleged that officers and staff failed to notice a prisoner being stabbed until an outside caller reported it, while the prisoner said she had been assaulted hours earlier by multiple people; the date of that incident is not specified in the records but it is tied to Pulaski. The AJC separately documented two incidents that predate McMillan’s tenure — a prisoner left in a vegetative state in 2014 and a death from pneumonia in 2015 — as part of broader concerns about medical neglect at the prison. While those earlier cases do not fall under her leadership, the Justice Department’s investigation of systemic failures was active while she was warden.

Burruss Correctional Training Center (Warden, 2023–2025)
Four deaths are attributed to McMillan’s tenure at Burruss C.T.C. GPS records identify Jonathan Lee Mischloney, 46; Christopher Troy Campbell, 58; Anthony James Walkertriplett, 21; and Tyler Michael Zacher, 22. All but Zacher fall under cause category 6 (undetermined). Zacher, according to a Monroe County Coroner’s death‑investigation report obtained by GPS through an Open Records Request, died by homicide on February 3, 2025, at Navicent Health after being assaulted at the facility on or about January 6, 2025; the report cites “sharp force injury of the head/neck.” No systemic‑failure incidents specific to Burruss during this period are detailed in the intelligence records, though McMillan was promoted to Warden 2 in 2024.

Sources

• GPS records — death attributions, tenure data, and sample death entries
• Monroe County Coroner’s Office death‑investigation report for Tyler Zacher (2025)
• Atlanta Journal‑Constitution — reports on stabbing incidents, medical neglect, and sexual misconduct allegations at Pulaski (though the sexual misconduct allegation concerns a different individual)
• U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation of Georgia prisons (2022‑2023), documenting constitutional violations at Pulaski State Prison

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Jul 12, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.