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Rogers, Tandra Tiease
On GDC's 2025 payroll
Profile written September 23, 2026
This profile reflects positional accountability — this individual held the leadership roles shown during the dates shown, during which the listed deaths or lawsuits occurred. Inclusion does not constitute a legal finding of personal culpability for any specific incident.
Tenure Summary
Tandra Tiease Rogers spent the first eight years of her documented Georgia Department of Corrections career in administrative and financial roles — Financial Operations Generalist, Purchasing Assistant, Business Support Analyst — with no facility assignment recorded, before moving into custody-side command as Deputy Warden at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison (GDCP) in Jackson. GDC salary records show the Deputy Warden posting beginning in 2023 at $62,903.45, rising to $70,855.55 in 2024 and $75,707.48 in 2025; position entries also record Deputy Warden at GDCP dated Nov. 22, 2023, and Aug. 27, 2026. No lawsuit names Rogers as a defendant in the records provided, and no news article naming her directly appears.
Per GPS's compiled counts, 45 deaths are attributed to her leadership tenure, all of them at GDCP — the facility's entire attributed toll. No deaths are attributed to the years she spent in staff roles, and her recorded status is simply "active," with no adverse status source.
What happened on their watch
Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison — Deputy Warden, 2023–2026. All 45 deaths attributed to Rogers occurred at GDCP during this posting. The sampled decedents span ages 19 to 76: Christopher Lee, 19, died Jan. 31, 2026; James Thompson and Albert Stinson, both 76, died Feb. 6, 2026, and Sept. 24, 2024, respectively. Among others named in the records: Shaun Corey Farrell, 48 (July 13, 2026); Leonel Cedillo, 42 (June 27, 2026); Terry Junie Marshall, 59 (March 2, 2026); Trevone Lavelle Lovett, 33 (Jan. 10, 2026); Charles Ramen Coppeak, 26 (Nov. 19, 2025); Jacob Scott Wilcox, 27 (June 28, 2025); Kyle Matthew Boone, 27 (April 23, 2024); and Rodriquez Demorris Garrett, 30 (Sept. 6, 2024). Recorded cause categories in the sample span codes 1 through 6, with category 6 the most frequently recorded.
Two deaths carry detailed accounts. Brandon Trace Burrell, 31, died Jan. 28, 2024; the AJC reported he was assaulted by another inmate while under the effects of methamphetamine and suffered numerous stab wounds, with the recorded cause listed as methamphetamine intoxication complicated by the altercation. Mark Smith, 53, carries a death date of June 7, 2025 in the death list, while GPS event entries dated June 1, 2025 describe his death as one from neglect — advanced Parkinson's disease, a denied medical-unit transfer, and a body found in a cell after hours without security rounds.
Incident entries during the posting include an April 6, 2025 stabbing in which a prisoner was killed by a chest wound witnessed by multiple inmates with a 30-minute delay before an officer responded, plus a companion entry describing a witness coerced to silence; and an Oct. 24, 2025 record of systemic failure in death reporting and investigation — deaths deleted from an inmate database, no autopsy ordered, and witness statements that disappeared.
AJC reporting during the tenure alleged serious security and infrastructure failures: a June 22, 2024 article reported that newly convicted Shane Tassi possessed a homemade shank and contraband cell phone within days of arriving at GDCP; a Sept. 5, 2024 piece noted officers had seized 35 cellphones from prisoner David "Toro" Zavala by the time of his guilty plea; and a Jan. 21, 2025 report alleged Charles Lee Broady Jr. was moved, despite his request for protection, to a location where six gang members attacked him with razor blades and nearly killed him. On March 31, 2025, the AJC reported that consultants hired by the governor found "almost every part" of GDCP vandalized by prisoners amid widespread infrastructure failures. Other event records describe Ronald Allen suffering severe cold injury to his hands in April 2024 after being ordered to separate frozen beef patties with inadequate protective equipment during a prison riot response.
The facility also carried out scheduled execution activity while Rogers held the Deputy Warden role: the lethal injection of Stacey Humphreys was set for Dec. 17, 2025 — the 78th person executed in Georgia since 1976, per the event record — after U.S. District Court Judge Leigh Martin May declined on Dec. 11, 2025 to halt it.
Sources
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — prison homicide list and reports on GDCP security failures, contraband and drug networks, gang-assault allegations, and the governor's consultants' findings (2024–2025).
- Georgia Prisoners' Speak compiled death records and GDCP facility-event entries.
- Georgia Department of Corrections position and salary records for Rogers (2015–2026).
- U.S. District Court ruling by Judge Leigh Martin May, Dec. 11, 2025, as recorded in GPS event entries.
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Warden | GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC AND CLASSIFICATION STATE PRISON | 2026-08-27 → present |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC AND CLASSIFICATION STATE PRISON | 2023-01-01 → present |
| Deputy Warden | GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC AND CLASSIFICATION STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| BUSI SUPPORT ANALYST 1 | 2022-01-01 → 2022-12-31 | |
| FINANCIAL OPS GENERALIST 3 | 2021-01-01 → 2021-12-31 | |
| FINANCIAL OPS GENERALIST 1 | 2019-01-01 → 2020-12-31 | |
| PURCHASING ASST 2 | 2018-01-01 → 2018-12-31 | |
| FINANCIAL OPS GEN (AL) | 2015-01-01 → 2016-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
45 people died at facilities under Rogers, Tandra Tiease's leadership.
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