Peoples, Delvin Rasaunn

Tenure Summary

Delvin Rasaunn Peoples entered the Georgia Department of Corrections as a correctional officer at Lee State Prison in 2006, returned there as a corrections officer in 2015, and was promoted to correctional lieutenant for 2016–2017. He served as correctional assistant superintendent at McEver Probation Detention Center in 2018 and as Correctional Superintendent at Calhoun State Prison in 2019, then spent four and a half years as Deputy Warden at Calhoun (2020 through August 2024). In September 2024 he moved to Macon State Prison as Special Assistant to the Warden, became Deputy Warden there in 2025, and has held the Warden role at Macon since January 16, 2026. His personnel record lists him as active.

GPS's death registry attributes 48 deaths to his leadership tenures — 19 at Calhoun State Prison and 29 at Macon State Prison. He is a named defendant in one pending federal lawsuit filed while he was Deputy Warden at Macon, and the Georgia Department of Administrative Services Risk Management settlement ledger records three liability payouts tied to Calhoun during periods he led there. No news item in the records reviewed names him directly.

What happened on their watch

Calhoun State Prison — Correctional Superintendent (2019); Deputy Warden (2020–August 2024). Nineteen deaths are attributed to Calhoun during his leadership there. Among the documented cases: DaQuavious Cachone Lackey, 21, died May 16, 2022, of a stab wound to the neck and blunt force injuries; the DOJ report found staff failed to follow procedures when moving his assailant, leaving Lackey to be beaten by his cellmate with a fan motor in a net bag. Gonzalo Colmenero-Ayala, 54, died July 17, 2024, after an inmate-to-inmate assault, and Kenneth Scott Piper, 37, was killed in an inmate-to-inmate assault on May 4, 2024, both per incident report data. Martel Dorsey was stabbed by other prisoners; the GDC told a television station that witnesses saw him run from a dorm chased by other prisoners. A January 2023 event record describes a 24-year-old prisoner dying of dehydration with renal failure after staff cut off his food and water following an incident in which he threw water through his cell door flap. The DOAS Risk Management ledger records a $3,250,000 payout to Reginald Jacobs Sr. for the estate of Reginald Jacobs Jr. tied to a 2023 Calhoun incident, a $998,715 payout to Angel M. Ortiz tied to a 2019 incident, and $1,400 to Lasharon Brantley tied to a 2020 incident. In 2019, Calhoun officer Temperess Johnson was caught smuggling eight cellphones and 2.6 pounds of methamphetamine in a GDC van and sentenced to five years in federal prison.

Macon State Prison — Special Assistant to the Warden (September 2024–December 2024). He held this post for this period.

Macon State Prison — Deputy Warden (2025). Twenty-nine deaths in total are attributed to Macon; the following were recorded while he was Deputy Warden. The AJC reported that about two-thirds of correctional officer jobs at Macon were unfilled as of October 2024, that the coroner described only five to eight officers staffing the entire facility when responding to deaths, and that low staffing let gangs exert influence in facilities where most locks did not work. The DOJ's October 2024 report described assaults, stabbings and rapes as routine in understaffed Georgia prisons, including a finding that four gang members ran past an officer to a kitchen area and fatally stabbed a prisoner. An AJC analysis counted 13 prison deaths from January 1 to February 4, 2025, under homicide investigation. Jonathan Mitchell died after being beaten by fellow prisoner Jon Edward Pippin, who was accused of using his "foot, knee and fist" and reportedly confessed; Henry Finley died January 18, 2025, after being stabbed; Christian Krauch was found in January 2025 with brain bleeds, broken ribs, slashed feet, cigarette burns and a necrotic wound. Sanchez Jackson was killed in June 2025; per the AJC, his family received only a brief call from the warden and an investigator gave "short and vague" answers, and his sister said he told her as many as four men were packed into one cell. A federal lawsuit alleges Bobby Edward Lee Jr. was strangled by a cellmate who had previously killed, despite his pleas for protection, and that no officers responded until after his death; Carrington Juwon Frye's mother alleged he bled more than half an hour before help arrived, and Kendrick Malik Brown's mother alleged he was celled with a prisoner known to be dangerous. The Southern Center for Human Rights filed suit on January 24, 2025, over overcrowding and inadequate bedding, documented as 96 inmates sharing a single toilet. Gregory Sampson became Macon's warden on February 1, 2025; inmate Rodney Edward Smith was extradited to Florida in August 2025 over an alleged hunting-lease fraud scheme.

GPS's death registry names those who died at Macon State Prison during his tenure there:

• Tony Horne died August 20, 2026, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 48.
• Brett Michael Scudder died June 20, 2026, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 37.
• Anthony Williams died May 2, 2026, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 60.
• Allan Sharpe died April 10, 2026, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 69.
• Eric Roberts died February 9, 2026, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Homicide, age 33.
• Randall Allen Cleveland died November 30, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 77.
• Michael Tony Cooper died November 20, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 73.
• Marquis Young died October 22, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Homicide, age 37.
• Gary Simpson died October 8, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 63.
• Clifton B Boston died August 26, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 67.
• Calvin Earl Noble died August 26, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Suicide, age 25.
• Cassiem Mahlon Johnson died August 25, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Suicide, age 55.
• Pierre Cedric Scott died August 22, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Homicide, age 41.
• Xavier Anthony Adams died July 22, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Homicide, age 40.
• Niko Lamar Swann died June 27, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 36.
• Lukas Lance Way died June 22, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Homicide, age 32.
• Sanchez Jackson died June 19, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Homicide, age 48.
• Terell Rasheen Everett died May 22, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 35.
• Cornelius Lee Mason died May 20, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 64.
• Douglas Wayne Medearis died May 19, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 50.
• Marion Washington died May 16, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 61.
• John Austin Mitchell died April 23, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 50.
• D'Andrius Brown died March 23, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Homicide, age 30.
• Lynn Alexander Durett died March 20, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 74.
• Michael Alvin Reddings died March 8, 2025, at Macon State Prison; registry cause Unknown/Pending, age 64.

Macon State Prison — Warden (from January 16, 2026). Eric Roberts died February 9, 2026, with no reported altercation and no signs of foul play; the cause was undetermined, the body went to the GBI crime lab, and the GDC Office of Professional Standards described its investigation as ongoing. Reports logged to the facility during this tenure include a June 2026 stabbing in a housing building followed by a shakedown by roughly 20 Incident Response Team members with dogs; segregation-held prisoners climbing onto a roof and an emergency count with no injuries; an individual jumping from a building top; and a report of an incarcerated person dying of stab wounds sustained in a housing unit at Dooly State Prison after being airlifted. A Telegram-circulated report in September 2026 said Macon had been taken off lockdown. Also dated in this tenure: four correctional officers arrested on charges of violating their oath and providing false statements; drug-trafficking sentencings of inmates Devito Duran Young (327 months) and Trace Davrin Works (262 months), with $170,000 in cryptocurrency seized from Xin Wang; a 13WMAZ report that Andreaus Benard Oliver Sr. orchestrated drug shipments to a Cordele address controlled by his son; and a CBS News Miami allegation that Rodney Edward Smith ran a hunting-lease fraud from inside using smuggled phones.

Litigation

• Jacobs v. Georgia Department of Corrections, No. 4:25-cv-00111 (GAMD), filed March 26, 2025, status pending, no outcome amount recorded; filed while Peoples held the Deputy Warden role at Macon State Prison (CourtListener docket).

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Macon State Prison staffing, gang and contraband reporting (March 2025); homicide list and decedent family accounts (January and September 2025)
• U.S. Department of Justice report on Georgia prison conditions (October 2024), as reported by the AJC
• GA Department of Administrative Services Risk Management settlement ledger (open records) — Calhoun State Prison payouts
• CourtListener — docket for Jacobs v. Georgia Department of Corrections
• CBS News Miami — Rodney Edward Smith fraud allegation (August 2026)
• 13WMAZ — Macon State Prison drug-trafficking pleas and sentencings (2026)
• Southern Center for Human Rights filings concerning Macon State Prison conditions (January 2025)
• GPS death registry and case-submission reports (Macon and Calhoun State Prisons, 2020–2026)

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 18, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.