Rogers, Tandra Tiease

Tenure Summary

Tandra Tiease Rogers's documented GDC career began in administrative and financial posts: Financial Ops Gen (AL) in 2015 and 2016, Purchasing Assistant 2 in 2018, Financial Ops Generalist 1 in 2019–2020 and Generalist 3 in 2021, and Business Support Analyst 1 in 2022 — none of them tied in the records to a specific facility. In 2023 she moved into facility leadership as Deputy Warden at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, where her listed salary rose from $62,903.45 in 2023 to $75,707.48 in 2025. Since July 16, 2026 she has been listed as Deputy Warden of Administration at the same prison; her status is recorded as active.

Records attribute 41 deaths to her leadership tenure, every one of them at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison. No lawsuit naming her as a defendant appears in the records reviewed, and no news item in them names her directly.

What happened on their watch

Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison — Deputy Warden (2023–2025); Deputy Warden of Administration (from July 16, 2026). All 41 deaths attributed to Rogers's leadership tenure occurred at this facility. The registry's cause entries for those deaths include four suicides (Tidd, Holliday, Garrett, Burnett), two overdoses (Rodriquez, Coppeak), one homicide (Rhodes) and one accident (West); the largest single group carries the designation Unknown/Pending. Several of the dead were young: Charles Ramen Coppeak was 26, Jacob Scott Wilcox 27, Rodriquez Demorris Garrett 30, Christopher Shawn Burnett 37, William Rhodes 38 and Dru Eggebrecht 39.

The deaths recorded during her tenure include:

• Wendell Thomas Cochran died September 22, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 68.
• Dru Eggebrecht died September 5, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 39.
• Thomas Harold Broach died August 22, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 81.
• Michael Wayne Forker died August 8, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 74.
• Tommy L Tucker died August 6, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 77.
• Walter Brown died August 3, 2026, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 66.
• Juan Jose Rodriquez died December 10, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Overdose, age 53.
• Tabaya Marshall Gray died November 27, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 52.
• Charles Ramen Coppeak died November 19, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Overdose, age 26.
• Christopher Wayne Crook died August 5, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 49.
• Daniel Claude Callahan died July 26, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 72.
• Woodrow Wilson Hodges died July 14, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 68.
• Jacob Scott Wilcox died June 28, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 27.
• Mark Smith died June 7, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 53.
• David Octavious Robbs died April 30, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 37.
• Michael Scott West died March 6, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Accident, age 46.
• William Rhodes died February 20, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 38.
• John Irvin Jr Tidd died December 15, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Suicide, age 36.
• Willie Henry Ponder died November 8, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 47.
• Thomas Jr Williams died November 7, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 62.
• Stephen Allen Hester died November 6, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 41.
• Joshua Mark Holliday died October 21, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Suicide, age 43.
• Albert Stinson died September 24, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 76.
• Rodriquez Demorris Garrett died September 6, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Suicide, age 30.
• Christopher Shawn Burnett died July 14, 2024, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Suicide, age 37.

Allegations and incidents recorded during the posting. On March 31, 2025 the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that consultants hired by the governor found almost every part of Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison vandalized, with widespread infrastructure failures — the same period in which Rogers held the Deputy Warden role. The AJC's homicide reporting describes Brandon Trace Burrell, who died January 28, 2024 (registry: homicide, age 31), as assaulted by another inmate while under the effects of methamphetamine and suffering numerous stab wounds; a separate AJC report alleges that Charles Lee Broady Jr., after requesting protection from threatening gang members, was moved to a location where six gang members attacked him with razor blades. In September 2024 the AJC reported that 35 cellphones had been seized from David "Toro" Zavala at the time of his guilty plea, and in June 2024 that newly convicted inmate Shane Tassi was photographed with a homemade shank and a contraband cell phone within days of arriving.

Facility event records during the same period describe Mark Smith, a Parkinson's disease patient, found dead in his cell after missed medical transfer requests and hours without security rounds (June 2025); a prisoner fatally stabbed in the chest with a reported 30-minute delay before officer response, and a witness allegedly coerced to silence (April 6, 2025); inmate Ronald Allen suffering severe cold injury to his hands while separating frozen beef patties with inadequate protective equipment (April 2024); and an October 24, 2025 record of deaths deleted from an inmate database, no autopsy ordered, and missing witness statements. Execution-related events at the prison include the scheduled lethal injections of Stacey Humphreys for December 17, 2025 and again for September 16, 2026, the denial of clemency on September 15, 2026, and a notice of appeal filed the same week. Three federal sentencings were recorded September 11, 2026: Deivon Waller (240 months, $2,000 fine) over drone-dropped methamphetamine, marijuana and phones, Asa James Ward (56 months) and Tristahn Ash (92 months).

A September 17, 2026 witness-claim report — a video by former correctional officer Kerri-Ann Crumbley, shared by the Human and Civil Rights Coalition of Georgia — describes hiring and retention problems and a hospital post where things she could have done for an incarcerated patient were refused to her as against policy. The report does not name Rogers.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — consultants' findings on Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison (March 31, 2025); homicide list and Burrell report; Broady protection-failure report; Zavala cellphone reporting; Tassi contraband report
• WGXA — Deivon Waller drone-contraband sentencing
• WRDW — Humphreys clemency and parole-board conflict reporting
• The Georgia Virtue — Fulton County ruling on Board member Kimberly McCoy
• Facebook — Human and Civil Rights Coalition of Georgia (share of Kerri-Ann Crumbley video), witness claim
• GPS death registry — cause, date and age entries for the 41 deaths attributed to this tenure

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Nov 1, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.