McMillan, Meosha S

Tenure Summary

Meosha S. McMillan held a series of Georgia Department of Corrections posts beginning in 2011, including roles at Clayton Transitional Center, Macon Transitional Center, Emanuel Women’s Facility, Pulaski State Prison, and Burruss Correctional Training Center. Her facility-lead tenures include Superintendent at Macon Transitional Center in 2013, Warden 1 at Emanuel Women’s Facility from 2017 through 2019, Warden 1 at Pulaski State Prison from 2020 through 2022, and Warden 1/2 at Burruss Correctional Training Center from 2023 through 2025. GPS records attribute 18 deaths to her facility-lead tenures: 14 at Pulaski State Prison and 4 at Burruss C.T.C. No deaths are attributed to her other leadership or staff postings in the records provided. The structured record lists no lawsuits naming McMillan as a defendant. In January 2026, she moved to a Coordinator of Field Operations Risk Management and Standards role.

What happened on their watch

Early leadership and staff postings — Clayton, Macon, Emanuel Women’s Facility

GPS records show no deaths attributed to McMillan during her time as Assistant Superintendent at Clayton Transitional Center in 2011, as Superintendent at Macon Transitional Center in 2013, or as Warden 1 at Emanuel Women’s Facility from 2017 through 2019. The records also do not tie any litigation naming her as a defendant to those postings.

Pulaski State Prison (2020–2022)

GPS attributes 14 deaths to McMillan’s time as Warden 1 at Pulaski State Prison. The sample runs from Sophia Brown on Jan. 23, 2020, through Christina Marie Buttery on Dec. 21, 2022; ages ranged from 27 to 78. Documentation of cause varies. The most detailed record is for Melissa Christine Thacker, 27, who died July 25, 2021. A GBI autopsy, case DOFS 2021-4003542, certified her cause as asphyxia due to hanging and classified the manner as suicide; the autopsy noted a ligature furrow, a history of paraplegia with lower body atrophy, and multiple white shoelaces tied together labeled “shoe laces removed from handicap rail.” For Sandtoro Pearson, 44, and Kathleen Conger Murphy, 71, GDC’s own mortality coding — obtained through the UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project — classifies the deaths as natural; for Brenda Kaye Ivie, 65, and Mozel Anderson, 78, GDC’s coding lists the deaths as undetermined. GPS notes those are Department classifications, not autopsy findings. The remaining Pulaski records in the sample carry cause-category codes but no narrative cause.

During this tenure, GPS intel records include a June 30, 2022 report that gang members were using violence to extort inmates and families at Pulaski State Prison for Women. GPS intel also references a U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation documenting constitutional violations at Pulaski State Prison, with records dated in 2023 and 2024 and one record referring to 2022–2023, which overlaps the final portion of McMillan’s Pulaski tenure.

Burruss Correctional Training Center (2023–2025)

GPS attributes four deaths to McMillan’s tenure at Burruss: Jonathan Lee Mischloney, 46, on March 3, 2024; Christopher Troy Campbell, 58, on June 26, 2024; Anthony James Walkertriplett, 21, on Sept. 9, 2024; and Tyler Michael Zacher, 22, on Feb. 3, 2025. For the first three, the records list cause-category codes but no narrative cause. The Zacher death is documented in detail: according to the Monroe County Coroner’s Office death-investigation report obtained by GPS via open records, Zacher was assaulted by others on or about Jan. 6, 2025, at Burruss; he died at Navicent Health in Macon from a sharp-force injury to the head and neck. The GBI Medical Examiner case is ME-25-10458, and the report classifies the death as homicide. No allegations, lawsuits, or major incidents tied to McMillan’s Burruss tenure appear in the records provided.

Sources

• Georgia Prisoners’ Speak structured personnel, mortality, and intel records
• Monroe County Coroner’s Office death-investigation report for Tyler Michael Zacher, obtained via open records
• GBI Medical Examiner records: case ME-25-10458 (Zacher); autopsy DOFS 2021-4003542 (Thacker)
• UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project custodial mortality dataset containing GDC’s own cause-of-death coding
• GPS intel records referencing the U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation of Georgia prisons and Pulaski State Prison

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Aug 23, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.