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Miller, Wendy

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Profile written August 30, 2026

Current Position Deputy Warden Of Care And Treatment Mcrae Women’s Facility
Salary $52,601 2025 · state payroll
Deaths Under Their Watch 4 during their tenure

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

GPS records show Wendy Miller held behavioral-health counselor roles at Telfair State Prison in 2019 and 2020, followed by counselor roles without a listed facility in 2021 and 2022. In 2023, she worked at McRae Women’s Facility as a Behavioral Hlth Counselor 3 and had a one-day Behavioral Hlth Counselor Spv entry on Nov. 22, 2023. Her 2024–2025 counselor supervisor roles list no facility. On Jan. 16, 2026, GPS records place her as Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment at McRae Women’s Facility; a one-day Deputy Warden title for McRae also appears on Aug. 27, 2026. GPS records attribute four deaths to her facility-deputy tenure, all at McRae Women’s Facility. The record contains no lawsuits naming Miller as a defendant and no news mentions tied to her.

What happened on their watch

Telfair State Prison, 2019–2020 (staff-tier behavioral health counselor). Before the deaths attributed to her deputy-warden tenure, Miller held non-leadership roles at Telfair. During that period, GPS-linked event records document multiple violent deaths at the facility, including Cedric La'Troy Johnson Sr. (strangulation, March 13, 2020), Aldrich Norval Cain (multiple stab wounds, April 23, 2020), Marcus Derrelle Pearson Jr. (multiple stab wounds, May 29, 2020), and Luis Garcia Palacio (blunt-impact head injuries, July 28, 2020). These deaths are not included in the four deaths GPS attributes to Miller, because they do not attach to a facility-leadership post held by her.

McRae Women’s Facility, 2026 (Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment, facility-deputy tier). GPS records attribute four deaths during this tenure. Beverly Suzannne Sipple, 59, died March 16, 2026; Kristal Lyn Layne, 55, died May 10, 2026; Shannon Michelle Rush, 43, died May 16, 2026; and Chasity King, 26, died May 18, 2026. All four records carry cause_category code 6; the structured data provides no plain-language cause of death. The entries for Rush and King carry auto-promotion notes from user reports GPS-DEATH-2026-D61CA and GPS-DEATH-2026-882AA, respectively; the other two entries have no notes. The provided record contains no intel reports or intel events tied to McRae Women’s Facility, and no lawsuits naming Miller. The later one-day Deputy Warden title on Aug. 27, 2026 carries no additional death attributions in the data.

Sources

  • GPS personnel records and death-attribution records — authoritative total of four deaths, all at McRae Women’s Facility
  • GPS-linked event records for Telfair State Prison — 2020 violent deaths during Miller’s staff tenure
  • Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger via Open Records — Telfair State Prison settlement entries included in the record
  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Telfair State Prison homicide, staffing, and contraband allegations included in GPS intel records
  • 13WMAZ — reporting on the Juan Carlos Ramirez Bibiano heat death and $3.2 million settlement at Telfair State Prison
  • Solitary Watch — Telfair State Prison tactical-squad and heat-shutoff allegations
  • Yahoo.com — Kendall Alfonzo Stevens bomb-threat allegation reported in connection with Telfair State Prison
  • No DOJ documents or court filings naming Miller are included in the provided record.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Aug 30, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.

Positions Held

TitleFacilityTenure
Deputy WardenMcRAE WOMEN’S FACILITY2026-08-27 → present
Deputy Warden of Care and TreatmentMcRAE WOMEN’S FACILITY2026-01-16 → present
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR SPV2024-01-01 → present
Behavioral Hlth Counselor SpvMcRAE WOMEN’S FACILITY2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 3McRAE WOMEN’S FACILITY2023-01-01 → 2023-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 32022-01-01 → 2022-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 22021-01-01 → 2021-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 2TELFAIR STATE PRISON2020-01-01 → 2020-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 1TELFAIR STATE PRISON2019-01-01 → 2019-12-31

Deaths attributed during tenure

4 people died at facilities under Miller, Wendy's leadership.

DateDecedentAgeFacilityRole at time
2026-05-18CHASITY KING26McRAE WOMEN’S FACILITYDeputy Warden of Care and Treatment
2026-05-16SHANNON MICHELLE RUSH43McRAE WOMEN’S FACILITYDeputy Warden of Care and Treatment
2026-05-10KRISTAL LYN LAYNE55McRAE WOMEN’S FACILITYDeputy Warden of Care and Treatment
2026-03-16BEVERLY SUZANNNE SIPPLE59McRAE WOMEN’S FACILITYDeputy Warden of Care and Treatment

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