Ramirez, Pablo

Tenure Summary

Pablo Ramirez began his GDC career as a correctional officer at Arrendale State Prison in 2016, rose through the ranks to sergeant at Phillips State Prison (2019–2020), then to lieutenant (2021–2023), unit manager back at Arrendale (2024), and most recently Deputy Warden at Arrendale through April 2025. GPS records show 29 deaths attributed to facilities during Ramirez's unit-supervisor-tier tenures: 25 at Phillips State Prison between 2021 and 2023, and 4 at Arrendale State Prison in 2024. Among those, the AJC's Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation identifies at least 10 as homicides. Two federal court cases list Ramirez as a defendant, though neither is a civil-rights or wrongful-death action tied to his GDC service.

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What Happened on Their Watch

Phillips State Prison — Lieutenant (2021–2023)

Ramirez held the rank of Correctional Lieutenant at Phillips from January 2021 through December 2023, a period during which GPS records attribute 25 deaths at the facility to his tenure. Of those, the AJC's Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation identifies at least seven as homicides. In November 2021, David Arthur Stone, 61, died of closed head trauma with delayed effects; according to the AJC, Stone's sister alleged he was assaulted in the facility's mental health ward, apparently with two pipes wrapped in cloth, and was taken off life support after his brain ceased functioning. In June 2022, Jamal Cymonne Johnson, 32, died of stab wounds to the head injuring the brain; in July 2022, Sidney Neally, 22, died of stab wounds to the torso; in August 2022, Jacob Daniels, 18, died of a stab wound to the neck, shoulder, and arm. On September 30, 2022, Quafabian Melik McBride, 19, died of a stab wound to the chest injuring the heart. According to the AJC, officers allegedly arranged for McBride to be brought to the lockdown unit on the day he was killed in what the AJC describes as a gang-related stabbing. Per intel event records, a DOJ report found that McBride's killing triggered a gang war across multiple GDC prisons, with Bloods attacking Crips over several days and 20 prisoners hospitalized. In December 2022, Alim Racheed Lovett, 33, died of stab wounds to the back injuring the right lung; per intel event records, four other prisoners were identified in the incident report. In April 2023, Arthur Wimbush, 46, died of blunt force trauma with fracture of the thyroid cartilage, per the AJC. The remaining 18 deaths during this posting carry cause category 6 in GPS records, with no further detail provided in the structured data.

Arrendale State Prison — Unit Manager (2024)

Ramirez served as Correctional Unit Manager at Arrendale throughout 2024, during which GPS records attribute four deaths to his tenure. On April 27, 2024, Sherry Elaine Joyce, 61, died; the AJC lists her cause of death as strangulation, and intel event records state that arrest warrants allege a fellow prisoner, Jeanni Geuea, was responsible. Eight days later, on May 5, 2024, Hallie Marie Reed, 23, died; the AJC lists her cause of death as strangulation, also in the mental health unit (A Unit), with arrest warrants again alleging Geuea. The two strangulation deaths in the same unit within eight days represent a concentrated pattern in GPS records. Also during Ramirez's 2024 unit-manager posting, on May 1, 2024, a separate intel event records the arrest of Lieutenant Russell Edwin Clark for alleged sexual contact with a prisoner at Arrendale. Two additional deaths — Lauri Parker, 60, and Amie Rodriguez, 47, both in September 2024 — carry cause category 6 in GPS records with no further detail provided.

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Litigation

• United States v. Ramirez Pablo, No. 7:15-cr-00011 (M.D. Ga.), filed July 22, 2015; terminated March 2, 2016. Per CourtListener, this is a federal criminal matter. The structured record does not specify charges or outcome.
• Guijosa Silva v. Wendell Roberson Farms Inc, No. 7:10-cv-00017 (M.D. Ga.), filed March 12, 2010; terminated August 9, 2012. Per CourtListener, this is a civil matter. The structured record does not specify Ramirez's role or the outcome.

Neither case in GPS records is identified as a wrongful-death or civil-rights action arising from Ramirez's GDC service.

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Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation (homicide cause-of-death data for Phillips and Arrendale deaths; McBride officer-arrangement allegation; Stone mental-health-ward assault allegation)
• GPS records — deaths-during-tenure table, positions table, intel events (McBride gang war / DOJ finding; Joyce and Reed strangulation circumstances; Clark arrest; Arrendale riot incident; lawmaker access blockade)
• CourtListener — United States v. Ramirez Pablo, No. 7:15-cr-00011 (GAMD); Guijosa Silva v. Wendell Roberson Farms Inc, No. 7:10-cv-00017 (GAMD)

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