Pritchett, Lonnie Shane

Tenure Summary

Lonnie Shane Pritchett is an active Georgia Department of Corrections employee whose GPS record runs from a 2005 correctional officer post at Bacon Transitional Center through sergeant and officer roles at Coffee Correctional Facility, lieutenant and assistant superintendent posts at Appling Integrated Treatment Facility, and then facility-lead roles at Bacon and Coffee. GPS records attribute one death to Pritchett’s facility-leader tenures: Lannis Adams, 62, who died on June 3, 2024, while Pritchett was Superintendent at Bacon Transitional Center. No lawsuits naming Pritchett as a defendant appear in the provided records.

What happened on their watch

Appling Integrated Treatment Facility

Pritchett held the rank of Correctional Lieutenant in 2020 and Correctional Assistant Superintendent in 2021 at Appling Integrated Treatment Facility. GPS records show no deaths attributed to Pritchett at Appling, and no lawsuits or facility-specific intel reports naming him there are included in the record.

Bacon Transitional Center

Pritchett returned to Bacon Transitional Center as Correctional Superintendent in 2023 and remained in that facility-lead role into 2024. GPS records show one death attributed to his Bacon tenure: Lannis Adams, 62, whose incident date is listed as June 3, 2024. The record lists the death under cause category 6 and provides no further cause description. This is the only death in the per-facility tally for Bacon Transitional Center. No lawsuits naming Pritchett as a defendant are recorded for this period.

Coffee Correctional Facility

Pritchett’s Coffee Correctional Facility history is longer but has fewer leadership overlaps. He worked there as a corrections officer in 2015 and as a correctional sergeant from 2016 through 2019. He later returned as Correctional Superintendent from January 1, 2025 to July 15, 2025, then became Regional Operations Coordinator at Coffee on July 16, 2025.

GPS records do not attribute any leadership-tenure deaths at Coffee to Pritchett. The intel record for Coffee includes two earlier homicide events — Kendall Ja’Mal Cromer in 2020 and Hendricks Riley Gunn in 2022 — but those predate Pritchett’s 2025 return and are not counted in his attributed total.

The same intel record documents a series of stabbings at Coffee Correctional Facility on December 13, 2025, leaving multiple inmates critically injured and requiring outside medical care. FOX 5 Atlanta and Yahoo.com report that 16 inmates, alleged to be members of the Bloods street gang, were charged in connection with the stabbings. GPS records also note a grand jury indictment of 16 inmates. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has separately reported on the 2020 stabbing death of Kendall Ja’Mal Cromer, with an incident report indicating four other inmates were involved, and on the indictment of former Coffee correctional officer Dacia Gaskins for allegedly conspiring to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, oxycodone, and marijuana; those allegations do not name Pritchett.

Sources

• GPS records — personnel, tenure, deaths attributed, and intel event log data
• FOX 5 Atlanta — reporting on 16 alleged Bloods gang members charged in Coffee Correctional Facility stabbings
• Yahoo.com — reporting on 16 indicted inmates described as Bloods street gang members
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on Kendall Ja’Mal Cromer’s stabbing death and the Dacia Gaskins drug-conspiracy indictment at Coffee Correctional Facility

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 6, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.