Rowland, Brandon Carl

Tenure Summary

Brandon Carl Rowland's GDC career began in the staff ranks — correctional officer (2015), correctional sergeant (2016), correctional lieutenant (2017–2018) — before he moved into unit supervision as a correctional unit manager (2019–2023) and, on November 22, 2023, into a CSM Correctional Unit Manager record at Baldwin State Prison. He has held deputy-level leadership at Baldwin since 2024: Deputy Warden for 2024 and 2025, and Deputy Warden of Security from July 16, 2026, with a separate CSM Correctional Unit Manager record at Baldwin dated August 27, 2026. His status is listed as active.

GPS attributes 19 deaths to his leadership tenure, all of them at Baldwin State Prison, running from January 17, 2024 to July 24, 2026. Per GPS's registry, the cause is Unknown/Pending for most of those deaths; two are recorded as homicides and one as Natural/Medical. No lawsuit in these records names Rowland as a defendant. During his deputy tenures the facility also drew reported allegations — that an officer stabbed an inmate with a shank, that four officers failed to protect a man stabbed to death, and that a protective-custody transfer left an inmate vulnerable to the gang threats a family says killed him.

What happened on their watch

Baldwin State Prison — CSM Correctional Unit Manager (record date November 22, 2023). Rowland is recorded in the CSM Correctional Unit Manager role at Baldwin on that date, before his promotion into the deputy warden ranks.

Baldwin State Prison — Deputy Warden, 2024–2025. The deaths GPS attributes to Rowland's tenure fall at Baldwin under his Deputy Warden and Deputy Warden of Security roles. Cause is listed as Unknown/Pending for most, which means GPS does not yet know the cause. Two are recorded as homicides, and ages range from 23 to 87. The names recorded in the registry:

• Clint Donovan Shelley died January 17, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending. Age 50.
• William D Moore died March 13, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; cause Unknown/Pending. Age 66.
• Anthony Raynard Wynn died April 15, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; cause Unknown/Pending. Age 62.
• Lonnie Inman died April 25, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; cause Unknown/Pending. Age 77.
• Tyrone Eugene Level died May 3, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; cause Unknown/Pending. Age 50.
• Fred Leon Lewis died June 24, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; cause Unknown/Pending. Age 63.
• Vincent Reshad Dyer died August 21, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide. Age 50.
• Richard Lee Davenport died September 2, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; cause Unknown/Pending. Age 64.
• Jerry W Hulsey died September 19, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; cause Unknown/Pending. Age 75.
• Michael Jerome Brown died October 8, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; cause Unknown/Pending. Age 52.
• James Leon Floyd died October 10, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; cause Unknown/Pending. Age 49.
• Al Mir Harris died December 31, 2024, at Baldwin State Prison; cause Unknown/Pending. Age 23.
• Henry Finley died January 19, 2025, at Baldwin State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide.
• Walter Brown died January 22, 2025, at Baldwin State Prison; cause Unknown/Pending.
• Mark Tyrone Miller died February 7, 2025, at Baldwin State Prison; cause Unknown/Pending. Age 62.
• Douglas Jerome Salter died March 27, 2025, at Baldwin State Prison; cause Unknown/Pending. Age 87.
• Cedric Phillips died September 14, 2025, at Baldwin State Prison; cause Unknown/Pending. Age 48.
• Jack Eubanks died October 24, 2025, at Baldwin State Prison; cause Unknown/Pending. Age 73.

GPS's registry lists Dyer's death as a homicide, and a GPS event record describes it as sharp-force chest trauma after he was stabbed by others with sharp instruments, with incident report data showing a homicide, a fight and contraband. During the same period, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Jamari McClinton's protective custody status was removed when he was transferred from Phillips State Prison, leaving him vulnerable to gang threats that led to his death, and reported a lawsuit alleging that Joshua Emanuel Williams was negligently placed in a cell with an inmate who had previously stabbed other inmates — a suit GPS records as filed by Williams's mother (dated January 21, 2025). A separate GPS event record notes the April 5, 2025 death of inmate Ricky Mathis at Baldwin, with the GDC reporting no signs of an altercation and the body sent to the GBI crime lab. A GPS event record also describes a March 23, 2025 incident in which, according to a lawsuit, an officer threw a water bottle at inmate Akeim Burgest and later returned with a shank and stabbed him while a lieutenant watched. GPS records describe Al Mir Harris's death as resulting from diabetic ketoacidosis after he was denied essential medical care, though his registry entry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.

Baldwin State Prison — Deputy Warden of Security, from July 16, 2026. Edward Allen Pitt died July 24, 2026, at Baldwin State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical. Age 65. Reporting by 13WMAZ (dated in GPS's records as August 24, 2026) alleges that four Baldwin correctional officers failed to protect Vincent Dyer from a fatal stabbing; that Dyer reported threats and asked to be moved shortly before his death; that an officer allowed inmates into his dormitory; that officers did not respond during or after the attack; and that logbook entries failed to accurately document it. A GPS event record of the same date states that a Baldwin County jury convicted Traquan Bangs of malice murder in May for the stabbing, sentencing him to life without parole plus five years. An inside report to GPS by email (October 10, 2026) describes facility-wide water being off for much of a day, widespread indigestion the reporter suspected was tied to a broken water pipe or mold on food trays, daily fights in one housing area, only a few officers said to remain, an informal market in state clothing and sheets feeding theft, and earlier reports of stabbings or beatings every few days, officers allowing men from other dorms in, and yard access only once in weeks.

Sources

• GPS death registry — dates, facilities and cause categories for the 19 deaths attributed to Rowland's Baldwin tenure
• GPS intel event records, Baldwin State Prison — Dyer homicide, Harris, Burgest, Mathis, the Williams lawsuit and the Bangs conviction
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — homicide-list reporting on Jamari McClinton and the Joshua Emanuel Williams lawsuit (January 21, 2025)
• 13WMAZ — reporting on the lawsuit against four Baldwin correctional officers over Vincent Dyer's fatal stabbing (August 24, 2026)
• Inside report to GPS (email) — Baldwin State Prison conditions, October 10, 2026

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.