Morales, Jose R

Tenure Summary

Jose R. Morales held a Georgia Department of Corrections correction-administration post during calendar year 2015, then carried the title WARDEN 1 for seven consecutive years, 2016 through 2022, according to state position and salary records. Those records do not name a facility for any of the postings, so no facility-level accountability picture can be drawn from them. The death data compiled for this profile attributes zero deaths to any facility-leadership tenure Morales held: the total is zero and there are no per-facility counts and no individual decedent records tied to his tenure.

Overlapping those same years, federal court dockets list Morales as a defendant in three civil suits, all now terminated. The records supply filing and closure dates and a "terminated" status only — no disposition detail and no monetary outcome — and they do not describe the underlying allegations.

What happened on their watch

2015 — Correction administration (non-leadership role). Position records list Morales in a correction-administration capacity for the 2015 calendar year, with no facility identified. No deaths are attributed to this period. A suit in which he is listed as a defendant, Towry v. Stacey Nicholson, was filed in August 2015 and closed in October 2017.

2016–2022 — WARDEN 1. Position records show Morales holding the WARDEN 1 title for each calendar year from 2016 through 2022, with annual salary rising from $87,340 in 2016 to $95,939.92 in 2020 and a partial-year figure of $18,422.52 in 2022. No facility is named for any of these years. GPS attributes zero deaths to these leadership tenures; there are no per-facility death totals, no death records, no intel reports, and no news mentions naming Morales in the available records. Two suits in which the dockets list him as a defendant were filed during this span: Williams v. Morales in January 2018 and Engleman v. Adkerson in May 2021.

Because facility assignments are not recorded for these positions, this profile supports no finding either way about conditions, incidents, or oversight at any particular prison during his tenure.

Litigation

• Williams v. Morales, No. 4:18-cv-00025 (GASD) — filed January 31, 2018; terminated March 28, 2019. No outcome amount recorded.
• Engleman v. Adkerson, No. 1:21-cv-01992 (GAND) — filed May 10, 2021; terminated June 3, 2024. Morales is listed as a defendant; no outcome amount recorded.
• Towry v. Stacey Nicholson, No. 2:15-cv-00172 (GAND) — filed August 17, 2015; terminated October 25, 2017. No outcome amount recorded.

Sources

• CourtListener dockets — Williams v. Morales (4:18-cv-00025), Engleman v. Adkerson (1:21-cv-01992), Towry v. Stacey Nicholson (2:15-cv-00172).
• Georgia Department of Corrections position and salary records, 2015–2022, via the GPS personnel profile for Morales, Jose R.
• GPS death data for Morales, Jose R — zero deaths attributed to facility-leadership tenures.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 27, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.