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Rowland, Brandon Carl
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Profile written August 9, 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 began his career with the Georgia Department of Corrections in 2015 as a correctional officer and rose through the ranks over nearly a decade, holding positions as sergeant, lieutenant, and unit manager. In 2024, Rowland was promoted to deputy warden at Baldwin State Prison, a facility-level leadership role with accountability for operations inside one of the state’s most violence-plagued prisons. GPS records show that 28 deaths have been attributed to Baldwin State Prison during Rowland’s tenure as deputy warden, spanning from early 2024 into mid-2026. The deaths include documented homicides, fatalities with causes still pending investigation, and deaths medical examiners attributed to disease, and they occurred against a backdrop of federal gang conspiracy indictments, staff contraband arrests, and a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into systemic violence and conditions across Georgia’s prison system.What happened on their watch
Rowland assumed the deputy warden role at Baldwin State Prison in January 2024. GPS records document 28 deaths at the facility during his leadership tenure. The decedents range in age from 23-year-old Al Mir Harris to 87-year-old Douglas Jerome Salter. Cause categories include homicides: per a GDC-released report, Henry Finley died from “homicide due to multiple puncture wounds” on January 19, 2025. An incident report also documented the homicide of Vincent Reshad Dyer on August 21, 2024, from sharp-force chest trauma. Other deaths remain under investigation or with pending causes, including that of Ricky Carroll Mathis on April 5, 2026, for which the GDC’s Office of Professional Standards opened an inquiry, and that of Isaac Evan Robinson on January 2, 2026, which a prisoner social-media account alleged occurred in the protective custody K-3 building. Several deaths were attributed to disease: Walter Brown’s death certificate lists metastatic adenocarcinoma, and intel records state that Almir Harris, a prisoner with type 1 diabetes, died of diabetic ketoacidosis after being denied essential medical care.During Rowland’s time as deputy warden, Baldwin State Prison was the subject of multiple allegations and investigations. According to 13WMAZ, a lawsuit filed by prisoner Akeim Burgest alleged that in March 2025 an officer threw a water bottle at Burgest and then stabbed him with a shank while a lieutenant stood by and failed to intervene. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that a lawsuit by the mother of Joshua Emanuel Williams alleged he was negligently placed in a cell with a prisoner who had previously stabbed others. A federal judge ordered GDC to preserve evidence in the Burgest case in April 2026. Wider systemic issues documented in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution also intersected with Rowland’s tenure: a 2023 investigation found that more than 360 Georgia prison employees had been arrested for smuggling contraband since 2018, and in 2021 a former Baldwin State Prison lieutenant was convicted for smuggling K-2-laced papers into the facility. A DOJ investigation into violence and conditions in Georgia prisons, announced in 2021, remained ongoing throughout Rowland’s deputy warden service.
Litigation
GPS records show no lawsuits naming Brandon Carl Rowland as a defendant.Sources
- 13WMAZ — reporting on Akeim Burgest lawsuit alleging officer shanking and lieutenant’s failure to intervene at Baldwin State Prison (2026)
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on homicides, negligent cell-placement lawsuit, staff contraband arrests, federal gang indictment, and DOJ investigation at Baldwin State Prison
- Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger — GDC liability payouts at Baldwin State Prison (2016, 2020, 2022)
- GPS mortality records and incident data — death attributed during Rowland’s deputy warden tenure at Baldwin State Prison (2024–2026)
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| DEPUTY WARDEN | BALDWIN STATE PRISON | 2024-01-01 → present |
| 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
28 people died at facilities under Rowland, Brandon Carl's leadership.
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