Owens, Robert

Tenure Summary

Robert Owens entered the Georgia Department of Corrections in 2015 as a correctional officer at a facility the records do not name, and rose steadily through the ranks: sergeant in 2016, lieutenant in 2017–2018, captain in 2019–2020, and correctional unit manager from 2021 through 2023. On November 22, 2023, he moved into facility leadership as Deputy Warden at Metro Reentry Facility, the post he has held since — including a Deputy Warden of Security designation recorded effective July 16, 2026. He is listed as active.

Fourteen deaths are attributed to Owens's facility-leadership tenure, all of them at Metro Reentry Facility, per GPS's death registry. The registry records the cause as Natural/Medical for eight of the decedents, Unknown/Pending for five, and Accident for one. No lawsuits naming Owens as a defendant appear in the records, and GPS holds no intel reports or news items naming him during his deputy-warden tenure.

What happened on their watch

Metro Reentry Facility — Deputy Warden, November 22, 2023 to present

All 14 deaths attributed to Owens's leadership tenure occurred at Metro Reentry Facility while he held the Deputy Warden role, according to the role recorded for each death. The decedents ranged in age from 36 to 85. Eight deaths are recorded as Natural/Medical, five as Unknown/Pending — meaning GPS does not yet know the cause and does not guess one — and one, Timothy Crumbley, as Accident. Two deaths fall on the same date, January 24, 2024, when both Lakeith Shunta Bonner and Richard Kevin Meadows died at the facility.

The named dead, in the order the registry records them:

• Lakeith Shunta Bonner died January 24, 2024, at Metro Reentry Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending. Age 40.
• Richard Kevin Meadows died January 24, 2024, at Metro Reentry Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical. Age 63.
• Keithal Landon Greatheart died June 19, 2024, at Metro Reentry Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical. Age 63.
• Benjamin August Harter died September 14, 2024, at Metro Reentry Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending. Age 85.
• Timothy Crumbley died October 5, 2024, at Metro Reentry Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Accident. Age 65.
• Larry Jones died November 1, 2024, at Metro Reentry Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical. Age 76.
• Joshua Jean Hanks died December 3, 2024, at Metro Reentry Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending. Age 36.
• Harden Millard Walker died March 30, 2025, at Metro Reentry Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical. Age 70.
• Willie James Johnson died April 11, 2025, at Metro Reentry Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending. Age 74.
• Sammy Bernard Palmer died April 25, 2025, at Metro Reentry Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending. Age 54.
• John Whitfield died October 5, 2025, at Metro Reentry Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical. Age 61.
• Wilson Beavers died October 10, 2025, at Metro Reentry Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical. Age 66.
• Stephen Mott died October 20, 2025, at Metro Reentry Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical. Age 52.
• Rodney Corbin died October 23, 2025, at Metro Reentry Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical. Age 55.

GPS's intel-report and intel-event files contain no entries tied to Owens's role at Metro Reentry Facility, and no news reports naming him are recorded. No legal action against him as a defendant is documented.

Sources

• GPS Death Registry — 14 deaths recorded at Metro Reentry Facility during Robert Owens's deputy-warden tenure (January 2024 – October 2025), with cause categories and ages.
• Georgia Department of Corrections position and salary records — Owens's rank progression from correctional officer (2015) to Deputy Warden at Metro Reentry Facility (2023–2026).

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 11, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.