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Miller, Wendy

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Profile written May 31, 2026

Current Position Deputy Warden Of Care And Treatment Mcrae Women’s Facility

Salary $52,601 2025 · state payroll

Deaths Under Their Watch 3 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

Wendy Miller began her career with the Georgia Department of Corrections in 2019 as a Behavioral Health Counselor 1 at Telfair State Prison, progressing through counselor ranks — including time at the McRae Women’s Facility in 2023 — before her promotion to supervisory counselor roles. On January 16, 2026, Miller was appointed Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment at the McRae Women’s Facility, a leadership-tier position classified as facility deputy.

GPS records attribute a total of three deaths to Miller’s leadership tenure, all at the McRae Women’s Facility during 2026. No lawsuits naming Miller as a defendant appear in the GPS database. Her career path reflects a rise from frontline mental health staff to a role overseeing care and treatment operations at a women’s prison during a period when the McRae facility recorded several fatalities.

What happened on their watch

Behavioral Health Counselor — Telfair State Prison (2019–2020)

Miller worked as a Behavioral Health Counselor 1 and 2 at Telfair State Prison during a period when the facility was plagued by extreme violence and critical staffing shortages. While Miller held no leadership authority during these years, the conditions at Telfair form the institutional backdrop to her GDC career. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Telfair was missing 79% of its correctional officer positions as of early 2026, leaving just 32 officers to supervise roughly 1,400 prisoners. A series of inmate homicides occurred at Telfair during her tenure, including the stabbing deaths of Cedric La'Troy Johnson Sr., Aldrich Norval Cain, Marcus Derrelle Pearson Jr., and the blunt-impact killing of Luis Garcia Palacio in 2020. An AJC investigation also reported that Sergeant Desiree Briley pleaded guilty to helping an inmate smuggle methamphetamine into Telfair and distribute it over at least two years — a federal case later folded into Operation Ghost Busted targeting a white supremacist drug network operating across South Georgia prisons.

Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment — McRae Women’s Facility (January 2026–present)

Miller assumed the Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment role at McRae Women’s Facility on January 16, 2026. GPS records document three deaths at McRae during her time in this leadership position, each categorized under cause category 6 in the GPS death-tracking system.

On March 16, 2026, Beverly Suzannne Sipple, 59, died at the facility. On May 17, 2026, Shannon Rush died. One day later, on May 18, 2026, Chasity King died. All three deaths are recorded with the same cause category; the circumstances surrounding each remain documented only by GPS intake notes with no publicly available death certificates or investigative reports at this time. No lawsuits have been filed against Miller in connection with these deaths, per court records reviewed by GPS. No intel reports, news articles, or federal investigations in the GPS database specifically address conditions at the McRae Women’s Facility during her tenure.

Sources

GPS death records — three deaths at McRae Women’s Facility during Miller’s tenure as Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment (2026)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on staffing shortages, homicides, and contraband smuggling at Telfair State Prison
Solitary Watch — allegations of tactical officer violence and heat shutoff at Telfair State Prison
Federal prosecution records (Operation Ghost Busted) — drug trafficking network involving Telfair State Prison staff

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on May 31, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.

Positions Held

Title	Facility	Tenure
Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment	McRAE WOMEN’S FACILITY	2026-01-16 → present
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR SPV		2024-01-01 → present
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 3	McRAE WOMEN’S FACILITY	2023-01-01 → 2023-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 3		2022-01-01 → 2022-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 2		2021-01-01 → 2021-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 2	TELFAIR STATE PRISON	2020-01-01 → 2020-12-31
BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 1	TELFAIR STATE PRISON	2019-01-01 → 2019-12-31

Deaths attributed during tenure

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

Date	Decedent	Age	Facility	Role at time
2026-05-18	Chasity King	—	McRAE WOMEN’S FACILITY	Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment
2026-05-17	Shannon Rush	—	McRAE WOMEN’S FACILITY	Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment
2026-03-16	BEVERLY SUZANNNE SIPPLE	59	McRAE WOMEN’S FACILITY	Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment

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