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Nash, Torika R
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Profile written August 30, 2026
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
Torika R. Nash has worked in the Georgia Department of Corrections since at least January 2006, when GPS personnel records place her as a Behavioral Health Counselor II at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson. She subsequently held behavioral health counselor and supervisor positions across multiple years, including GDCP postings in 2017, 2021, and November 2023. On October 16, 2024, Nash entered the facility deputy tier as Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment at the Special Management Unit. By 2025, GPS records list her as Deputy Warden there, with a salary of $70,700.18.GPS records attribute four deaths to Nash’s facility-deputy tenure, all at the Special Management Unit. The structured record contains no lawsuit naming Nash as a defendant.
What happened on their watch
Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison (2006, 2017, 2021, 2023)
Before her Special Management Unit post, Nash held behavioral health counselor and supervisor roles at GDCP. GPS records attribute no deaths to those staff-tier tenures.Special Management Unit (October 16, 2024 – present)
Nash assumed the Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment role on October 16, 2024. Six days later, on October 22, 2024, Emilio Christopher Canales, 40, died at the Special Management Unit. The death record lists Nash’s role at the time as Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment and assigns cause-category code 6.In 2025, Lashon Boddie, 30, died on September 2, and Michael Ogletree, 33, died on October 31. Both records list Nash’s role as Deputy Warden and carry cause-category code 6. In 2026, Antony Ramon Penick, 32, died on May 30, also with cause-category code 6.
All four deaths occurred at the Special Management Unit and fall between October 2024 and May 2026. The decedents ranged in age from 30 to 40. GPS records do not provide a narrative cause of death beyond the category code.
AJC reporting published in May 2026 described broader Special Management Unit-related allegations: that GDC falsified or backdated prisoner review forms; that prison records listed deceased prisoner Ricardo Daughtry as attending table time, recreation, or the book cart after his death; and that GDC failed to check on Daughtry for nearly seven hours. The same reporting cited a U.S. Department of Justice investigation that found Georgia prisons inhumane, with people assaulted, stabbed, raped, and killed in understaffed facilities, and said GDC obstructed federal investigators. The AJC also reported that a federal judge held GDC in contempt in April 2024 over the 2019 Special Management Unit settlement, before Nash’s SMU appointment. The provided records do not name Nash individually in those allegations.
GPS event records also reference an AJC-documented incident in which prisoner Arthur Lee Cofield Jr. allegedly used a contraband cellphone at the Special Management Unit to steal $11 million from a billionaire’s account.
Sources
- GPS records — personnel positions, salaries, attributed death totals, and decedent entries for Nash’s facility-deputy tenure.
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — multiple investigative reports on Special Management Unit and Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison conditions, GDC record-keeping, DOJ findings, and contraband cellphone schemes.
- U.S. Department of Justice — findings on Georgia prison conditions, as referenced in AJC reporting and GPS event records.
- Federal court records — contempt order by U.S. District Judge Marc T. Treadwell concerning the Special Management Unit settlement, as referenced in GPS records.
- GDC official CY2024 Mortality Report — referenced in GPS audit notes verifying the date of death for Emilio Christopher Canales.
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Warden | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | 2026-08-27 → present |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | 2025-01-01 → present |
| Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | 2024-10-16 → present |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR SPV | 2022-01-01 → 2024-10-15 | |
| Behavioral Hlth Counselor Spv | GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC AND CLASSIFICATION STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR SPV | GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC AND CLASSIFICATION STATE PRISON | 2021-01-01 → 2021-12-31 |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 3 | 2018-01-01 → 2020-12-31 | |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 3 | GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC AND CLASSIFICATION STATE PRISON | 2017-01-01 → 2017-12-31 |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 2 | 2016-01-01 → 2016-12-31 | |
| BEH HEALTH/COUNSELOR (WL) | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 | |
| Behavioral Health Counselor II | GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC AND CLASSIFICATION STATE PRISON | 2006-01-01 → 2006-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
4 people died at facilities under Nash, Torika R's leadership.
| Date | Decedent | Age | Facility | Role at time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-30 | ANTONY RAMON PENICK | 32 | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | DEPUTY WARDEN |
| 2025-10-31 | MICHAEL OGLETREE | 33 | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | DEPUTY WARDEN |
| 2025-09-02 | LASHON BODDIE | 30 | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | DEPUTY WARDEN |
| 2024-10-22 | EMILIO CHRISTOPHER CANALES | 40 | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment |
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