Phams, Angela

Tenure Summary

Angela Phams has served as Warden of Riverbend Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility since January 1, 2024, per GPS personnel records. That is her only leadership posting in the records; no prior facility-lead tenure is documented, and no salary figure is listed for the 2024 salary year. Her status is listed as active, with no status source indicating any pending charge or indictment.

Four deaths in GPS's death registry are attributed to her tenure at Riverbend — the entirety of the total attributed to her leadership. All four are listed by the registry with a cause of Unknown/Pending, meaning GPS does not yet know what caused them. No lawsuits naming Phams as a defendant appear in the records, and no news coverage naming her directly appears either. One intel event dated inside her tenure is logged against Riverbend; its title references a different facility (see below).

What happened on their watch

Riverbend Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility — Warden, from January 1, 2024 to present

Four deaths in GPS's registry fall inside Phams's tenure as Warden, all at Riverbend:

• Jimmy Ray Teems died April 5, 2024, at Riverbend Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending. He was 54.
• Jere Hunt Horne died June 28, 2024, at Riverbend Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending. He was 64.
• Marquavious Devante Knox died August 10, 2026, at Riverbend Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending. He was 34.
• Akeem Ajima Lanier died August 20, 2026, at Riverbend Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending. He was 38.

The registry records no cause for any of the four, so no pattern of cause categories, no age clustering beyond the figures above, and no aggravating findings can be stated from these records. Two deaths fall in 2024, within six months of her appointment; the other two fall ten days apart in August 2026.

The records contain no warden-level intel reports from Riverbend during her tenure and no lawsuits filed against her in that role.

One intel event is logged with a May 17, 2025 date and a role-at-time of Warden at Riverbend: the entry concerns Jason Palmer, who, according to the event title, was placed in segregation, denied adequate food, and had phone access blocked for months. The title of that entry names Telfair State Prison, while the record itself is filed against Riverbend; the records provided do not resolve the discrepancy, so the entry's substance is reported here as logged and the facility reference is left as the record states it. The entry carries no description text and no source URL, so the underlying allegation cannot be traced further in these records.

Because the intel log covers only items dated inside her leadership tenure, nothing in these records speaks to conditions at Riverbend before January 1, 2024.

Sources

• GPS death registry — cause-of-death entries and dates for Jimmy Ray Teems, Jere Hunt Horne, Marquavious Devante Knox, and Akeem Ajima Lanier, all at Riverbend Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility
• GPS personnel records — Warden appointment at Riverbend effective January 1, 2024; active status
• GPS intel log — single event dated May 17, 2025 concerning Jason Palmer, filed against Riverbend, title referencing Telfair State Prison

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.