Phams, Angela

Tenure Summary

Phams, Angela has one leadership posting in the GPS structured record: Warden at Riverbend Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility, beginning January 1, 2024, with no end date listed as of the record. GPS records attribute two deaths at Riverbend to Phams’s leadership tenure. No lawsuits naming Phams as a defendant appear in the structured file, and the file contains no external news mentions.

What happened on their watch

Riverbend Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility — Warden, Jan. 1, 2024 – present

GPS records attribute two deaths at Riverbend during Phams’s tenure as Warden. Jimmy Ray Teems, 54, has an incident date of April 5, 2024; Jere Hunt Horne, 64, has an incident date of June 28, 2024. Both deaths are categorized in GPS records under cause category 6, and neither entry includes notes or a specific cause.

The facility-level intel event log also contains separate records dated within Phams’s tenure. A death report was filed for Marquavious Knox on August 10, 2026, under reference GPS-260821-35909E, and is listed as pending review; this record is not listed among the two deaths attributed to Phams’s tenure in the structured file. Two additional intel event entries dated May 17, 2025 reference Jason Palmer. One entry states the claim that Palmer was “wrongly convicted of murder with no direct evidence; jury included officer with documented bias and conflict of interest.” Another entry states the claim that Palmer was “placed in segregation, denied adequate food, phone access blocked for months at Telfair State Prison.” All of these are intel log records, not independent findings, and should be read as allegations.

No intel reports at facilities are recorded for Phams, and the structured file lists no lawsuits against Phams as a defendant.

Sources

• GPS personnel records — Phams, Angela structured file, including positions, total deaths attributed, and deaths during tenure.
• GPS death records — Riverbend Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility entries for Jimmy Ray Teems and Jere Hunt Horne.
• GPS intel event log — Riverbend Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility entries dated May 17, 2025, and August 10, 2026, including death report reference GPS-260821-35909E.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Aug 23, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.