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Rogers, Tandra Tiease
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Profile written September 6, 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 held financial and purchasing roles with the Georgia Department of Corrections from 2015 through 2022, according to salary records; none of those positions carried a facility assignment. Beginning January 1, 2023, GPS records place Rogers as deputy warden at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson, a role carried through the 2025 salary year and in later entries. GPS records attribute 45 deaths to that facility during Rogers' deputy warden tenure. No lawsuit naming Rogers as a defendant appears in the GPS records. During the same period, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison drew repeated Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigative coverage and was logged by GPS as operating far beyond its original design capacity.What happened on their watch
At Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, all 45 deaths attributed to Rogers' tenure are logged for that facility. The death-record sample supplied with the file begins in late December 2023 and runs through July 2026; decedents range in age from 19 to 76. GPS intel logs also record earlier GDCP deaths during this deputy warden tenure: Elmer W. Pless, 65, died May 15, 2023 by strangulation; Carrell Beontae Johnson, 32, died June 6, 2023 from chopping injuries to the head and sharp force injuries to the torso; and Desmond Layne Hattaway, whose April 2023 death was described as suicide with allegations of inadequate mental-health monitoring in segregation.Among later records, GBI medical examiner files list suicide by hanging for Rodriquez Demorris Garrett on September 6, 2024, Christopher Shawn Burnett on July 14, 2024, and Timothy Todd Holbrook on April 8, 2024. Joshua Mark Holliday's record includes a GBI autopsy noting ligature hanging, methamphetamine in toxicology, and manner listed as suicide; the same record retains a family/witness account that an assault may have preceded the death, which the autopsy neither confirms nor excludes, according to GPS records. Christopher Lee, 19, died January 31, 2026; a prisoner report said he had been placed in a stripped cell and staff attributed the death to cold or exposure, but a later GBI medical examiner report certified probable cardiac dysrhythmia, natural, with no gross evidence of significant trauma. Mark Rutledge's record carries a witness account that he was beaten at GDCP on Father's Day; the GDC mortality report confirmed the death but not a cause, and the GDC Office of Professional Standards was investigating. GPS intel logs describe the June 7, 2025 death of Mark Smith, 53, as a neglect case involving Parkinson's disease, medication failures, and delayed response. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Brandon Trace Burrell, 31, who died January 28, 2024, was assaulted by another inmate while under the effects of methamphetamine and suffered numerous stab wounds.
On systemic conditions, GPS intel logs state GDCP held 4,540 incarcerated people in a facility designed for 800 — 568 percent of design capacity. Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigations during this period described widespread vandalism and infrastructure failures; newly convicted inmate Shane Tassi photographed with a shank and contraband cell phone within days of arrival; Officer Vera Jackson's admission to taking thousands of dollars to pass information to a death row prisoner; and an attack on Charles Lee Broady Jr. by six gang members after he requested protection. A federal civil rights suit, Allen v. Georgia Department of Corrections, was filed March 5, 2026, alleging medical neglect that led to the amputation of Ronald Allen's left hand and permanent damage to his right hand, according to GPS intel logs. Rogers is not named as a defendant in the available records.
Sources
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — multiple investigative reports on GDCP homicides, contraband, corruption, security failures, and prison conditions during Rogers' tenure.
- GPS records — position and salary records, death records, intel logs, and capacity analyses.
- GBI Medical Examiner reports — autopsy and cause findings for Christopher Lee, Joshua Mark Holliday, and several suicide-by-hanging deaths at GDCP.
- Georgia Department of Corrections mortality reports — cited in death record notes for Mark Rutledge and other records.
- Allen v. Georgia Department of Corrections federal civil rights filing — as logged in GPS intel records, filed March 5, 2026.
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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