Peoples, Delvin

Tenure Summary

Delvin Peoples is recorded as Warden of Macon State Prison from July 5, 2026, with no end date listed; it is the only leadership posting in his file. Four deaths are attributed to Macon State Prison during his tenure as Warden, all of them between August 20 and October 23, 2026, per GPS's death registry. Three registry entries list the cause as Unknown/Pending; one, Juld Gerald Carter, is listed as a homicide. GDC's Office of Professional Standards handled the investigations into the October deaths, and Carter's body was referred to the GBI Crime Lab for cause-of-death determination. No lawsuits naming Peoples as a defendant appear in the record, and no news reports name him directly.

What happened on their watch

Macon State Prison — Warden, from July 5, 2026 (ongoing). The deaths recorded during Peoples's tenure at the facility:

• Tony Horne died August 20, 2026, at Macon State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending and gives his age as 48.
• Juld Gerald Carter died October 21, 2026, at Macon State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Homicide.
• Veasna Johnathan Bun died October 22, 2026, at Macon State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• John Doe died October 23, 2026, at Macon State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.

Carter's death is the most fully documented. Incident records state that GDC investigated the death as a homicide, that the GDC Office of Professional Standards was handling it under standard procedure, and that his body was turned over to the county coroner for transport to the GBI Crime Lab; the same records describe him as serving a life sentence for a murder in Toombs County and give his age as 47. A separate incident record dated October 23 describes GDC investigating an inmate's death as a homicide and likewise describes the decedent as serving a life sentence for a Toombs County murder, with no further identity or circumstance disclosed; the department said the investigation was ongoing.

Three deaths fell inside a three-day window, October 21–23. Reports submitted from inside, logged by GPS as case submissions, describe the same stretch in general terms: one sender stated there had been three killings in two days and that an emergency response team was on site escorting people for interviews; another described the killing of an incarcerated person as the first of multiple deaths at that facility within a two-day span, with the incidents described as apparently unrelated; a further report stated that a homicide victim was found at a Georgia state prison and that the body had reportedly been under a bunk for days, prompting expected cell and bunk searches over the weekend. Two of those messages did not name the facility themselves; a Telegram group report did name Macon State Prison, stating that an ambulance had left in the morning and that GBI and investigators were still on scene, without describing the nature or outcome of the incident. Another message, which did not name a facility, described a homicide in which the victim was reportedly restrained for days, stabbed, and the body then set on fire. These are accounts from senders, not departmental findings.

Earlier in the tenure, a Telegram group report circulating September 18, 2026, indicated that Macon State Prison had been taken off lockdown, suggesting movement and normal operations had resumed. Two sentencing events dated July 8, 2026 are recorded at the facility: Devito Duran Young received 327 months in federal prison for directing a fentanyl and synthetic cannabinoid trafficking scheme from prison using a contraband cellphone, and Trace Davrin Works received a 262-month sentence for his role in the drug trafficking scheme. CBS News reported the allegation that Rodney Edward Smith, an incarcerated person at Macon State Prison, used smuggled cellphones and multiple online aliases to run a hunting-lease fraud scheme from prison, collecting deposits from hunters across 15 Florida counties; that is a news allegation about the incarcerated person, not a finding about the Warden.

Sources

• GPS death registry — cause, date and age entries for Tony Horne, Juld Gerald Carter, Veasna Johnathan Bun and John Doe, Macon State Prison, August–October 2026
• GPS case submissions (messages from inside and Telegram group reports) — October 2026 accounts of killings and of investigators on scene at Macon State Prison; September 18, 2026 report on the facility coming off lockdown
• Georgia Department of Corrections / Office of Professional Standards — statements on the homicide investigations of Juld Carter and of the October 23 death
• GBI Crime Lab — referral of Carter's body for cause-of-death determination
• CBS News (cbsnews.com) — allegation that Rodney Edward Smith ran a hunting-lease fraud scheme from Macon State Prison using smuggled cellphones
• Incident records logged at Macon State Prison — July 8, 2026 sentencings of Devito Duran Young (327 months) and Trace Davrin Works (262 months)

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 25, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.