McMillan, Meosha S

Tenure Summary

Meosha S. McMillan's recorded career with the Georgia Department of Corrections runs from a 2011 assistant superintendency at Clayton Transitional Center through facility leadership at Macon Transitional Center, Emanuel Women's Facility, Pulaski State Prison and Burruss C.T.C., followed by 2026 posts as Coordinator of Field Operations Risk Management and Standards and Assistant Region Director. GPS lists her status as active, with no sourced adverse status.

Across her facility-leadership tenures, 18 deaths are attributed to the institutions she led: 14 at Pulaski State Prison and 4 at Burruss C.T.C. The records contain no lawsuit naming her as a defendant and no news report that names her. Twelve of the 18 deaths carry the same internal cause classification; ages at death range from 21 to 78.

What happened on their watch

Macon Transitional Center — Superintendent, 2013. A single-year facility-lead posting. No deaths are attributed to Macon in the attributed-death records.

Emanuel Women's Facility — Sr Mgr, Correctional Admin (2016); Warden 1 (2017–2019). Four years in custody-side and top leadership roles at the women's facility. No deaths are attributed to Emanuel Women's Facility in the records covering her tenure.

Pulaski State Prison — Warden 1 (2020–2022). This is the heaviest period of her record: 14 deaths attributed to Pulaski State Prison while she held the Warden 1 role. The named decedents span January 2020 to December 2022 and include Sophia Brown (50), Judy Lynn Christian (67), Lakeysa Lashawn Wigfall (41), Mozel Anderson (78), Brenda Kaye Ivie (65), Melissa Christine Thacker (27), Kathleen Conger Murphy (71), Sandtoro Pearson (44), Tanya Marie Abbs (36), Margaret Ann Palmer (55), Sharon Ann Fuquea (56), Tammy Lowann Baker (54), Monica Mae Cutts (29) and Christina Marie Buttery (34). Ages skew both ways — several women in their 50s to late 70s alongside women in their late 20s and 30s. Cause classifications are not uniform: two deaths (Pearson, Murphy) share one classification, two others (Ivie, Anderson) another, with the remainder concentrated under the classification that accounts for a majority of deaths across both facilities. A GPS intelligence item dated June 30, 2022 — "Gang members using violence to extort inmates and families at Pulaski State Prison for Women" — places McMillan in the Warden 1 role at Pulaski on the date of that report. The entry is recorded as an intelligence report, not a finding of fact.

Burruss C.T.C — Warden 1 (2023); Warden 2 (recorded Nov. 22, 2023; 2024–2025). Four deaths are attributed to Burruss during her leadership there: Jonathan Lee Mischloney (46, March 3, 2024), Christopher Troy Campbell (58, June 26, 2024) and Anthony James Walkertriplett (21, Sept. 9, 2024) — all three carrying the same cause classification — plus Tyler Michael Zacher (22, Feb. 3, 2025), whose classification differs from the other three. Two of the four were in their early twenties.

Non-leadership postings. Records show Assistant Superintendent at Clayton Transitional Center (2011), Private Prison Monitor at Jenkins Facility (2014), and Correction Administration at Riverbend Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility (2015, salary $56,126.16). Her wardenships carried salaries rising from $73,864.48 at Emanuel (2017) to $103,459.59 at Burruss (2025). These periods are documented only as position and date; no attributed deaths fall within them.

Sources

• Georgia Prisoners' Speak personnel records — position history and salary data for Meosha S. McMillan (Clayton, Macon, Jenkins, Riverbend, Emanuel, Pulaski, Burruss; 2011–2026)
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak death records — 18 deaths attributed across her facility-lead leadership tenures, by facility and by named decedent
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak intelligence report — "Gang members using violence to extort inmates and families at Pulaski State Prison for Women," June 30, 2022 (Pulaski State Prison)
• No lawsuits as defendant and no news mentions naming this person appear in the records reviewed.

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