Rogers, Tandra Tiease

Tenure Summary

Tandra Tiease Rogers's documented career in the Georgia Department of Corrections began in administrative and financial posts: Financial Ops Generalist (2015–2016), Purchasing Assistant 2 (2018), Financial Ops Generalist 1 through 3 (2019–2021), and Business Support Analyst 1 (2022). None of those roles carried facility leadership authority. In 2023, personnel records show her as Deputy Warden at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, a position documented through 2025 and into 2026; on July 16, 2026 she is recorded as Deputy Warden of Administration at the same facility.

GPS's death registry attributes 35 deaths to her leadership tenure, all of them at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison. No lawsuit naming her as a defendant appears in the records. Her tenure overlaps AJC reporting on infrastructure damage and security failures at the prison, federal contraband prosecutions involving prisoners held there, and the scheduled executions of Stacey Humphreys.

What happened on their watch

Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison — Deputy Warden (2023 through 2025, with records continuing into 2026)

Thirty-five deaths are attributed to this leadership tenure, all at this facility (GDCP). The registry records the following decedents with Rogers in the Deputy Warden role at the time of death:

• Juan Jose Rodriquez died December 10, 2025, at GDCP; the registry lists the cause as Overdose, age 53.
• Tabaya Marshall Gray died November 27, 2025, at GDCP; Unknown/Pending, age 52.
• Charles Ramen Coppeak died November 19, 2025, at GDCP; Overdose, age 26.
• Christopher Wayne Crook died August 5, 2025, at GDCP; Unknown/Pending, age 49.
• Daniel Claude Callahan died July 26, 2025, at GDCP; Natural/Medical, age 72.
• Woodrow Wilson Hodges died July 14, 2025, at GDCP; Natural/Medical, age 68.
• Jacob Scott Wilcox died June 28, 2025, at GDCP; Natural/Medical, age 27.
• Mark Smith died June 7, 2025, at GDCP; Natural/Medical, age 53.
• David Octavious Robbs died April 30, 2025, at GDCP; Unknown/Pending, age 37.
• Michael Scott West died March 6, 2025, at GDCP; Accident, age 46.
• William Rhodes died February 20, 2025, at GDCP; Homicide, age 38.
• John Irvin Jr Tidd died December 15, 2024, at GDCP; Suicide, age 36.
• Willie Henry Ponder died November 8, 2024, at GDCP; Unknown/Pending, age 47.
• Thomas Jr Williams died November 7, 2024, at GDCP; Unknown/Pending, age 62.
• Stephen Allen Hester died November 6, 2024, at GDCP; Unknown/Pending, age 41.
• Joshua Mark Holliday died October 21, 2024, at GDCP; Suicide, age 43.
• Albert Stinson died September 24, 2024, at GDCP; Unknown/Pending, age 76.
• Rodriquez Demorris Garrett died September 6, 2024, at GDCP; Suicide, age 30.
• Christopher Shawn Burnett died July 14, 2024, at GDCP; Suicide, age 37.
• Edgar Jaramillo died July 8, 2024, at GDCP; Unknown/Pending, age 53.
• Gregory Lindsey died June 28, 2024, at GDCP; Unknown/Pending, age 64.
• James Douglas Arrendale died June 25, 2024, at GDCP; Suicide, age 40.
• Gerald Kennard Stewart died June 11, 2024, at GDCP; Unknown/Pending, age 67.
• Johnny Earl Mcstotts died May 31, 2024, at GDCP; Natural/Medical, age 48.
• Urban Van Milner died May 16, 2024, at GDCP; Unknown/Pending, age 54.

Several intel entries carry allegations the registry does not resolve. Multiple GPS intel records allege that Mark Smith died from neglect — advanced Parkinson's disease, denied a medical-unit transfer, missed medication, found dead in a cell after hours without security rounds; the registry lists his cause as Natural/Medical. A GPS intel entry dated October 24, 2025 records a claim of systemic failure in death reporting and investigation — deaths deleted from an inmate database, no autopsy ordered, witness statements missing. Two entries dated April 6, 2025 record a prisoner stabbed fatally in the chest, witnessed by other incarcerated people with a reported 30-minute delay before an officer response, and a killing in which a witness was allegedly coerced to silence. A further entry alleges that in April 2024 prisoner Ronald Allen suffered severe cold injury to his hands after being ordered to separate frozen beef patties with inadequate protective equipment during a riot response.

AJC reporting during this tenure describes: a murder conviction resulting in life without parole, after which Shane Tassi was photographed with a homemade shank and contraband cell phone within days of arriving at the prison (June 2024); David "Toro" Zavala, who had had 35 cell phones seized from him at the time of his guilty plea (September 2024); Charles Lee Broady Jr., who per the AJC was moved despite his request for protection into a unit where six gang members attacked him with razor blades (January 2025); and Brandon Trace Burrell, 31, who per the AJC was assaulted by another inmate while under the influence of methamphetamine and suffered numerous stab wounds — GPS's intel records list Burrell's death on January 28, 2024. The AJC also reported (March 31, 2025) that almost every part of the prison had been vandalized by prisoners, with widespread infrastructure failures.

Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison — Deputy Warden of Administration (from July 16, 2026)

In this role the records show the scheduled execution by lethal injection of Stacey Humphreys for September 16, 2026 at GDCP — which, per the records, would be the 55th lethal-injection execution in Georgia since 1976. A clemency hearing was set for September 15, 2026 and clemency was denied; his attorneys filed a notice of appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court on September 15, 2026, after a Cobb County Superior Court decision denying a new trial. An earlier execution date of December 17, 2025 was halted after his lawyers argued two State Board of Pardons and Paroles members had conflicts of interest; per The Georgia Virtue, a Fulton County judge ruled Board member Kimberly McCoy had a conflict, one member was ordered to recuse herself, no conflict was found for the other, and the Georgia Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal. A federal judge declined to halt the December execution (December 11, 2025).

On September 11, 2026, per WGXA (reporting a DOJ statement), Deivon Waller was sentenced to 240 months plus a $2,000 fine and three years of supervised release for conspiring to smuggle methamphetamine, marijuana and cell phones into multiple Georgia prisons using drones; Asa James Ward was sentenced to 56 months and a $1,500 fine, and Tristahn Ash to 92 months and a $1,500 fine. On September 17, 2026, the Human and Civil Rights Coalition of Georgia shared a video by correctional officer Kerri-Ann Crumbley addressing hiring and retention problems and describing a hospital post where, she said, things she could have done for an incarcerated patient were refused to her as against policy; she has since left the department and accounts differ on whether she resigned or was fired — the record asserts neither.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — prison homicide reporting (Burrell), prison-system failures (Broady), contraband cell phone networks (Zavala), and consultant findings on GDCP conditions (2025)
• WGXA — drone-contraband prosecution and sentencing, citing the Department of Justice
• WRDW — Stacey Humphreys execution and clemency coverage
• The Georgia Virtue — Fulton County ruling on Board of Pardons and Paroles member Kimberly McCoy
• Facebook — Human and Civil Rights Coalition of Georgia, share of correctional officer Kerri-Ann Crumbley's video
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak — death registry, intel records, and GDC personnel/salary records

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 11, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.