Pritchett, Lonnie Shane

Tenure Summary

Lonnie Shane Pritchett’s GDC record begins in 2005 as a correctional officer at Bacon Transitional Center, with a 2009 sergeant posting at the same facility. He later held correctional officer and sergeant posts at Coffee Correctional Facility from 2015 through 2019, then moved to Appling Integrated Treatment Facility as a lieutenant in 2020 and assistant superintendent in 2021. A 2022 record lists him as correctional assistant superintendent without a facility assignment. He returned to Bacon Transitional Center as correctional superintendent/superintendent starting in 2023 and remained there through July 15, 2025. Since July 16, 2025, GPS records list him as Regional Operations Coordinator assigned to Coffee Correctional Facility.

GPS records attribute one death to a facility-leader tenure held by Pritchett: one death at Bacon Transitional Center. No lawsuits naming Pritchett as a defendant appear in the provided records.

What happened on their watch

Bacon Transitional Center — correctional officer and sergeant, 2005 and 2009
GPS records show no deaths attributed to Pritchett’s early staff tenures at Bacon.

Coffee Correctional Facility — correctional officer and sergeant, 2015–2019
No deaths are attributed to Pritchett’s Coffee staff tenures in GPS records. The homicides at Coffee recorded in event records — Kendall Ja’Mal Cromer in 2020 and Hendricks Riley Gunn in 2022 — fall outside the Coffee staff tenures listed for Pritchett and are not counted in his attributed deaths.

Appling Integrated Treatment Facility — lieutenant and assistant superintendent, 2020–2021
GPS records show no deaths attributed to Pritchett’s Appling tenure.

Bacon Transitional Center — superintendent, 2023–2025
GPS death records list Lannis Adams, 62, as dying on June 3, 2024, while Pritchett was listed as Superintendent at Bacon Transitional Center. The record carries cause category 6 and no narrative notes.

Coffee Correctional Facility — Regional Operations Coordinator, 2025–present
Pritchett’s current Coffee assignment began July 16, 2025. GPS event records describe a series of stabbings at Coffee on December 13, 2025, leaving multiple inmates critically injured and requiring outside medical care. A Georgia grand jury later indicted 16 inmates on charges including aggravated assault, aggravated battery, gang act violations, and riot in a penal institution, according to GPS event records. FOX 5 Atlanta reported that the 16 inmates were alleged members of the Bloods gang; Yahoo.com carried a similar allegation. Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporting, per GPS intel records, also noted the indictment of former Coffee correctional officer Dacia Gaskins for conspiring to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, oxycodone, and marijuana. The AJC had separately reported that an incident report indicated four other inmates were involved in the 2020 stabbing death of Kendall Ja’Mal Cromer at Coffee. Those recorded Coffee deaths predate Pritchett’s July 2025 assignment and are not part of the one death attributed to his leadership tenure.

Sources

• GPS personnel and death records
• GPS intel event records
• FOX 5 Atlanta — reporting on 16 alleged Bloods gang members charged in Coffee County prison stabbings
• Yahoo.com — reporting on the alleged Bloods membership of the indicted inmates
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on Coffee Correctional Facility homicide investigatory records and the Dacia Gaskins drug-trafficking indictment

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Aug 16, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.