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Rowland, Brandon Carl
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
Brandon Carl Rowland's career with the Georgia Department of Corrections began at the line level and climbed steadily. Salary records show him as a Corrections Officer (WL) in 2015 at $27,742.52, a Correctional Sergeant in 2016 ($30,254.56), a Lieutenant in 2017 and 2018 ($44,747.76 and $42,052.37), and a Correctional Unit Manager from 2019 through 2023, with pay rising from $40,990.20 to $62,096.49. His first facility-linked record places him at Baldwin State Prison as a CSM Correctional Unit Manager on Nov. 22, 2023. He then served as Deputy Warden at Baldwin across 2024 ($67,234.82) and 2025 ($77,773.02), with a further single-day CSM Correctional Unit Manager record at the same facility dated Aug. 27, 2026. He is listed as active.
During his leadership tenure at Baldwin, 30 deaths are attributed to the facility — the entire attributed total in this file, all at Baldwin State Prison. No lawsuit in the dataset names Rowland as a defendant, and no news report in the dataset mentions him by name. He held the Deputy Warden role on the dates of every sampled death.
What happened on their watch
Baldwin State Prison — CSM Correctional Unit Manager (Nov. 22, 2023); Deputy Warden (2024–2025; role of record on deaths through July 2026)
A capped sample of 29 named decedents is available to illustrate the 30 attributed deaths. The sample runs from Clint Donovan Shelley, 50, on Jan. 17, 2024, to Edward Allen Pitt, 65, on July 24, 2026 — and is weighted toward older prisoners: at least 15 of the 29 had a recorded age of 62 or older, including Douglas Jerome Salter (87), Melvin A. Greene (80), Lonnie Inman (77), Jerry W. Hulsey (75), Jack Eubanks (73), and Leroy Keye (71). The youngest recorded were Al Mir Harris (23) and Artinez Rafael Ceaser (35). Twelve of the sampled deaths fall in 2024, six in 2025, and eleven in 2026.
Documented causes appear in only a few records. Vincent Reshad Dyer, 50, was fatally stabbed on Aug. 21, 2024; incident-report data cited in the records describes sharp-force chest trauma, a homicide, a fight, and contraband. Ricky Mathis, 38, died on April 5; the GDC reported no signs of an altercation and sent the body to the GBI crime lab to determine the official cause, per the event record. For Al Mir Harris, three separate event records state he died of diabetic ketoacidosis after being denied essential medical care, describing him as autistic and a type 1 diabetic — the decedent list dates that death Dec. 31, 2024, while the event records date it Jan. 5, 2025.
Two allegations published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Jan. 21, 2025, are tied to Baldwin during this tenure. One states 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. The other is drawn from a lawsuit by the mother of Joshua Emanuel Williams alleging he was negligently placed in a cell with an inmate who had previously stabbed other inmates. A separate March 23, 2025, event record describes a lawsuit claim that an officer threw a water bottle at Akeim Burgest and later returned with a shank and stabbed him while a lieutenant watched.
Sources
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — "GA prison homicides: a list of those killed in Georgia's prison system" (Jan. 21, 2025): allegations regarding Jamari McClinton and Joshua Emanuel Williams at Baldwin State Prison
- Court records — wrongful-death claim by the mother of Joshua Emanuel Williams (filed Jan. 21, 2025); claim concerning the alleged shanking of Akeim Burgest (March 23, 2025)
- Georgia Department of Corrections statements — as recorded in the April 5 death report on Ricky Mathis (no signs of altercation; body referred to the GBI crime lab)
- Georgia Prisoners' Speak personnel and death records — position/salary history, the 30 deaths attributed to Baldwin State Prison during Rowland's leadership tenure, and the named decedent sample for 2024–2026
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| CSM Correctional Unit Manager | BALDWIN STATE PRISON | 2026-08-27 → present |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | BALDWIN STATE PRISON | 2024-01-01 → present |
| CSM Correctional Unit Manager | BALDWIN STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL UNIT MANAGER | 2021-01-01 → 2023-12-31 | |
| CORRECTIONAL UNIT MANAGER | 2019-01-01 → 2020-12-31 | |
| CORRECTIONAL LIEUTENANT | 2018-01-01 → 2018-12-31 | |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL LIEUTENANT | 2017-01-01 → 2017-12-31 | |
| CORRECTIONAL SERGEANT | 2016-01-01 → 2016-12-31 | |
| CORRECTIONS OFFICER(WL) | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
30 people died at facilities under Rowland, Brandon Carl's leadership.
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