Pritchett, Lonnie Shane

Tenure Summary

Lonnie Shane Pritchett's Georgia Department of Corrections career spans two decades, beginning as a Correctional Officer at Bacon Transitional Center in 2005 and advancing through sergeant and lieutenant ranks before entering facility leadership. He served as Correctional Lieutenant at Appling Integrated Treatment Facility in 2020 and as Correctional Assistant Superintendent there in 2021, then held the same assistant-superintendent title in 2022 in a posting for which no facility is listed in the records.

Pritchett's leadership-tier tenures produced one attributed death: Lannis Adams, 62, who died on June 3, 2024, while Pritchett held the Superintendent role at Bacon Transitional Center. That single death at Bacon is the full attributed total for his time as a facility leader, per GPS's tally. Pritchett was named in no lawsuits as a defendant in the records provided, and no news reports in the dataset name him directly. The intel items associated with his tenures all fall during a six-month stretch at Coffee Correctional Facility in 2025.

What happened on their watch

Bacon Transitional Center — Superintendent (March 16, 2023 – December 31, 2024). Personnel records also list Pritchett as Correctional Superintendent at Bacon for calendar year 2023 and on a single-day entry dated November 22, 2023. During his tenure, GPS attributes one death to the facility: Lannis Adams, age 62, who died on June 3, 2024, while Pritchett held the Superintendent role. The record categorizes the cause as cause category 6 and carries no public narrative. No litigation against Pritchett arising from this posting appears in the records provided.

Coffee Correctional Facility — Correctional Superintendent (January 1, 2025 – July 15, 2025). GPS's attributed-death tally for Pritchett's leadership tenure remains one — at Bacon — and records no death at Coffee during this period. The intel record for this tenure is active, however. On January 21, 2025, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that an incident report indicated four other inmates were involved in the stabbing death of Kendall Ja'Mal Cromer. Ten days later, on January 31, 2025, the AJC reported that former correctional officer Dacia Gaskins had been indicted for conspiring to distribute illegal drugs, and in a second report that she was indicted for conspiring to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, oxycodone and marijuana as part of a drug-trafficking operation. Both Gaskins items carry Pritchett's role at the time as Correctional Superintendent. On June 18, 2025 — still within his tenure — a grand jury indicted 16 inmates on charges including aggravated assault, aggravated battery, violations of the Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act, and riot in a penal institution, after evidence was presented that day. Both AJC items share a source URL headlined "Gang-related violence results in two deaths at Georgia prison."

Coffee Correctional Facility — Regional Operations Coordinator (from July 16, 2025). Pritchett moved into this non-leadership post on July 16, 2025; the records list no end date. Personnel data also record a single-day entry as Sr Mgr, Correctional Admin, dated August 27, 2026.

Earlier non-leadership postings, listed for career context only: Correctional Officer, Bacon (2005); Sergeant, Bacon (2009); Correctional Officer and Correctional Sergeant, Coffee (2015–2019); Correctional Lieutenant, Appling (2020); Correctional Assistant Superintendent, Appling (2021) and without a listed facility (2022).

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — "Gang-related violence results in two deaths at Georgia prison" (Dacia Gaskins indictment items, dated January 31, 2025)
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — "Ga. prison homicides: a list of those killed in Georgia's prison system" (Kendall Ja'Mal Cromer stabbing item, dated January 21, 2025)
• GPS personnel and death records — tenure dates, salary years, and the single attributed death (Lannis Adams, Bacon Transitional Center, June 3, 2024)
• Georgia grand jury action recorded June 18, 2025, Coffee Correctional Facility (16 inmates indicted)

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