Nash, Torika R

Tenure Summary

Torika R. Nash's GDC record runs roughly two decades, almost all of it in behavioral health. GPS records place her as a Behavioral Health Counselor II at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison (GDCP) in 2006, then in a continuous sequence of counselor and counselor-supervisor postings from 2015 through 2024 — Behavioral Health Counselor (2015–2016), Counselor 3 (2017–2020), and Counselor Supervisor (2021–2024) — with salary records rising from $31,798.56 in 2015 to $66,532.45 in 2024. Several of those staff-year entries carry GDCP as the facility; others carry no facility in the data.

On 2024-10-16 she moved into facility leadership as Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment at the Special Management Unit (SMU) in Jackson, the state's maximum-security unit. A 2025 record lists her as Deputy Warden at SMU with a salary of $70,700.18, and a further SMU Deputy Warden entry appears dated 2026-08-27. Per GPS records, 4 deaths are attributed to her leadership tenure, all 4 at the Special Management Unit. GPS records list no lawsuits naming her as a defendant.

What happened on their watch

Special Management Unit — Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment (from 2024-10-16), then Deputy Warden (2025). GPS attributes 4 deaths to this tenure, spanning October 2024 to May 2026. The decedents named in GPS records are Emilio Christopher Canales, age 40, whose death is recorded 2024-10-22 — six days after her start date — at which point her recorded role is Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment; Lashon Boddie, age 30, recorded 2025-09-02; Michael Ogletree, age 33, recorded 2025-10-31; and Antony Ramon Penick, age 32, recorded 2026-05-30. All four deaths carry the same cause-category code (6) in GPS records; the records do not state a cause of death in plain text, and no cause should be inferred from the code. The three later deaths are recorded against the role "Deputy Warden."

GPS records also carry an audit trail on the Canales entry: an earlier correction moved the date to 2024-10-17, and a 2026-07-28 note restored 2024-10-22 after verifying against GDC's official CY2024 mortality report (GDC# 1226290), which lists that date. The Boddie entry carries a 2026-07-16 name correction from "Lashion" to "Lashon" to match GDC's official 2025 mortality report.

Facility-level allegations reported during the same window and recorded against SMU in GPS intel data include: a federal contempt order issued by U.S. District Judge Marc T. Treadwell citing the GDC for false statements and non-compliance with the 2019 SMU settlement, with a 100-page order finding officials stalled compliance until the injunction neared expiration (per GPS event records); the October DOJ report finding conditions in Georgia prisons inhumane and describing obstruction of federal investigators (per the DOJ report as summarized in GPS records); AJC reporting that GDC falsified and backdated prisoner review forms and that an SMU prisoner, Ricardo Daughtry, went nearly seven hours without a required check before his body was found; AJC reporting that the GDC stopped publishing preliminary cause of death in monthly mortality reports in March 2024; and AJC reporting on Arthur Lee Cofield Jr., who used a contraband cellphone at SMU to steal $11 million. These are allegations and findings reported by those sources; GPS records do not attribute them to Nash individually, and her role at SMU is a matter of record only.

Background — GDCP staff years (2006, 2015–2024). Intel reports recorded against GDCP concern contraband and drone drops, an inmate assault with stab wounds (per the AJC), an officer paid for information (per the AJC), and a 2026 report that GDCP held 4,540 people at 568% of its 1968 design capacity of 800. These are facility-level records from her staff-tier years; GPS attributes no leadership-tier deaths to them.

Sources

• GPS personnel and mortality records (positions, `total_deaths_attributed`: 4; `deaths_by_facility`: Special Management Unit 4; audit notes on the Canales and Boddie entries)
• GDC official CY2024 Mortality Report (ORR R018717-012425) — date verification for GDC# 1226290
• GDC official 2025 mortality report — name verification for Lashon Boddie
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — SMU review-form falsification, Daughtry check failure, mortality-report reporting change, Cofield cellphone case
• U.S. Department of Justice — October report on Georgia prison conditions
• U.S. District Court (Judge Marc T. Treadwell) — contempt order on the 2019 SMU settlement
• WGXA, WRDW, The Georgia Virtue — contraband and clemency-related reports recorded against GDCP

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 20, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.