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Owens, Robert
On GDC's 2025 payroll
Profile written September 23, 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
Robert Owens entered Georgia Department of Corrections service in 2015 as a corrections officer, paid $36,341.54 that year. He advanced steadily through GDC salary records: sergeant in 2016, lieutenant across 2017–2018, captain across 2019–2020, and correctional unit manager from 2021 through 2023. Those early postings appear in the salary data without a facility assignment.
On Nov. 22, 2023, records show Owens took the Deputy Warden role at Metro Reentry Facility. He still held that position in 2024 and 2025 salary records ($82,857.59 for salary year 2025) and in a GDC position record dated Aug. 27, 2026. GPS's personnel database attributes 19 deaths to Owens's leadership tenure, and all 19 are recorded at Metro Reentry Facility. The records show no lawsuits naming Owens as a defendant, no intel reports tied to his tenure, and no news coverage naming him directly. GDC lists his status as active.
What happened on their watch
Metro Reentry Facility — Deputy Warden (Nov. 22, 2023 – present). All 19 deaths attributed to Owens's tenure occurred while he held the Deputy Warden role, per GPS's personnel database. The decedents recorded in the tenure sample range in age from 36 to 85, with the majority in their 60s and 70s. Each entry carries a numeric cause-category code but no public narrative, so the records do not state the underlying circumstances of the deaths.
The earliest fatalities in the sample are two men recorded on the same date, Jan. 24, 2024: Lakeith Shunta Bonner, 40, and Richard Kevin Meadows, 63. Others through 2024 include Keithal Landon Greatheart, 63 (June 19), Benjamin August Harter, 85 (Sept. 14), Timothy Crumbley, 65 (Oct. 5), Larry Jones, 76 (Nov. 1), and Joshua Jean Hanks, 36 (Dec. 3).
A notable cluster appears in October 2025, when four deaths were recorded within 19 days at the facility: John Whitfield, 61 (Oct. 5), Wilson Beavers, 66 (Oct. 10), Stephen Mott, 52 (Oct. 20), and Rodney Corbin, 55 (Oct. 23). Earlier that year the records list Harden Millard Walker, 70 (March 30), Willie James Johnson, 74 (April 11), and Sammy Bernard Palmer, 54 (April 25).
The most recent entries in the sample fall in 2026: Robert Rodriguez Johnson, 46 (Jan. 1), Donald Woods, 65 (Jan. 31), Samuel Dennis Hunt, 64 (March 1), Cedric Clement Pierce, 61 (April 13), and Thomas Allen McKendrick, 82 (July 6).
No lawsuit naming Owens as a defendant, and no intel report, incident, or news item tied to his tenure at the facility, appears in the provided records.
Sources
- Georgia Department of Corrections position and salary records (2015–2025 salary years; position records dated Nov. 22, 2023, and Aug. 27, 2026), as compiled in GPS's personnel database — career trajectory, salary figures, and Deputy Warden posting at Metro Reentry Facility
- GPS personnel database death records for Metro Reentry Facility (incident dates Jan. 24, 2024 – July 6, 2026) — 19 deaths attributed to Owens's leadership tenure, decedent names, ages, and cause-category codes
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Warden | METRO REENTRY FACILITY | 2026-08-27 → present |
| Deputy Warden of Security | METRO REENTRY FACILITY | 2026-07-16 → present |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | METRO REENTRY FACILITY | 2024-01-01 → present |
| Deputy Warden | METRO REENTRY FACILITY | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL UNIT MANAGER | 2021-01-01 → 2023-12-31 | |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL CAPTAIN | 2019-01-01 → 2020-12-31 | |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL LIEUTENANT | 2017-01-01 → 2018-12-31 | |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL SERGEANT | 2016-01-01 → 2016-12-31 | |
| CORRECTIONS OFFICER (SP) | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
19 people died at facilities under Owens, Robert's leadership.
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