Sailem, Tiffany C

Tenure Summary

Tiffany C. Sailem's personnel record traces a two-decade climb inside the Georgia Department of Corrections that stayed anchored at Johnson State Prison. She appears as a correctional officer at Johnson in 2006 and again in 2015 as a corrections officer (SP), moved into supervision as a correctional lieutenant from 2016 through 2020, and served as a correctional unit manager from 2021 through 2024, with a November 22, 2023 record tying that title to Johnson. She was Unit Manager at Johnson from January 1 to March 31, 2025, then Deputy Warden of Security there from April 1, 2025 — the post she held when every death in this file occurred — and a separate Deputy Warden record at Johnson is dated August 27, 2026.

GPS's death registry attributes 25 deaths to her leadership tenure, all of them at Johnson State Prison. She is also listed as a defendant in Wade v. Morgan (GASD, filed August 31, 2023), recorded as pending.

What happened on their watch

Johnson State Prison — Correctional Officer (2006; 2015) and Correctional Unit Manager (November 22, 2023). These are non-leadership and single-date records; the file documents the titles and dates only.

Correctional Lieutenant (2016–2020) and Correctional Unit Manager (2021–2024). Both runs are recorded without a facility.

Johnson State Prison — Unit Manager (January 1 – March 31, 2025).

Johnson State Prison — Deputy Warden of Security (from April 1, 2025). All 25 deaths attributed to her leadership tenure fall inside this posting. Five are recorded as homicides — Paul Russell Brewster, Phillip Lamar Byrd, Joseph Lamar Sanders, Michael Elias Peschel and Ernest Perez — all between January and June 2026. One is recorded as a suicide (Martrese Jamon Mckay), one as an overdose (Anthony Shivers), and 18 remain Unknown/Pending in the registry. The decedents ranged in age from 30 to 86.

The registry names the following people as having died during this tenure:

• Walter Louis Thompson died September 10, 2026, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 65.
• Ernest Perez died June 23, 2026, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 61.
• Martrese Jamon Mckay died April 18, 2026, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Suicide, age 30.
• Dale Way died March 28, 2026, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 76.
• Michael Elias Peschel died March 14, 2026, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 36.
• Anthony Shivers died February 11, 2026, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Overdose, age 41.
• Joseph Lamar Sanders died January 27, 2026, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 54.
• Phillip Lamar Byrd died January 18, 2026, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 46.
• Calvin R Norwood died December 30, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 72.
• Marc Charles Neermann died November 2, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 69.
• Roger James died October 29, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 68.
• Aubrie Henley died October 5, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 69.
• Jarvis Dontez Walker died September 26, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 39.
• Matthew Glenn Maynard died September 14, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 65.
• Loy Alpheus Iii Windham died July 31, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 54.
• Larry Sherall Richards died July 29, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 86.
• Russell Scott Carter died July 23, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 42.
• Justin Haley Freeman died July 20, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 44.
• Robert Glenn Tanner died July 15, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 56.
• Joseph Wayne Clayton died July 12, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 32.
• Dewayne Bess died July 10, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 63.
• Robert Joseph Pruett died June 26, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 61.
• John Charles Rhoten died June 15, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 54.
• Paul Russell Brewster died June 9, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 48.
• Robert Barnwell died May 4, 2025, at Johnson State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 80.

Other items recorded at Johnson during this posting: a source-reported allegation dated April 10, 2026 that food trays carried visible residue and grime and that incarcerated people were falling ill, with internal efforts to fix the problem reportedly unsuccessful, and incident entries on the same date describing degraded dishwashing infrastructure and a manual chemical-dunk process. A June 24, 2026 social-media report described a death with paramedics responding, with the person's identity and status unknown. An April 6, 2026 Atlanta Journal-Constitution report alleged that Antone Hinton-Leonard hogtied, beat and choked David Henegar over five hours; that staff failed to act on prior warnings about Hinton-Leonard's mental health and an earlier choking; that staff ignored Henegar's screams; and that an administrative delay kept Henegar in custody past his scheduled release date. The AJC reported that the state paid $4 million to end the case on the eve of trial, and that Hinton-Leonard was charged with murder and awaiting trial. A July 20, 2026 report from a former staff member, published on Tyler C. Ryals' YouTube channel, described an understaffed shift where a use-of-force incident went unreported, and an incarcerated person's allegation of being restrained and tortured. On July 21, 2026, GDC held a ribbon-cutting for a new 20-bed Medical Intensive Infirmary at Johnson as part of a 524-bed modular build-out.

Litigation

• Wade v. Morgan, No. 3:23-cv-00073 (court docketed as GASD), filed August 31, 2023; status pending, no recorded outcome amount. Sailem is listed as a defendant. A separate April 6, 2026 record states that Betty Wade and David Jacob Henegar sued three corrections officers and a prison manager alleging staff could have prevented Henegar's death; the record does not identify which defendant held which post.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — April 2026 reporting on the Henegar death, the alleged prior warnings, and the reported $4 million payment.
• CourtListener — docket 68064087, Wade v. Morgan.
• Tyler C. Ryals (YouTube channel) — former staff member's account of a spring 2024 shift at Johnson State Prison.
• GPS case-submission records — anonymous source allegations on food service conditions (April 10, 2026) and a social-media death report (June 24, 2026).
• Georgia Department of Corrections — July 21, 2026 Medical Intensive Infirmary ribbon-cutting and modular housing announcement.
• GPS death registry — cause classifications for the 25 deaths listed above.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Nov 1, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.