Sales, Timothy Deshaun

Tenure Summary

Timothy Deshaun Sales entered the Georgia Department of Corrections as a Sergeant at Dooly State Prison in 2003. He was a Lieutenant at Rutledge State Prison in 2006, Chief of Security at Macon State Prison in 2013, held correctional administration and unit-manager posts at Macon in 2015–2016, and was a unit manager at Autry State Prison in 2017. His leadership track ran from Deputy Warden at Macon (2018–2021) and Deputy Warden at Dooly (2022) to Warden at Dooly (March 1–June 30, 2023) and Warden at Macon (July 1, 2023–Jan. 31, 2025). Records also list Warden 3 positions in 2024 and 2025 with no facility identified, plus single-day Warden 3 entries tied to Macon dated Nov. 22, 2023 and Aug. 27, 2026. His status is active.

GPS attributes 54 deaths to Sales's leadership tenures: 46 at Macon State Prison and 8 at Dooly State Prison. No lawsuit in these records names him as a defendant. State liability payouts logged against the two facilities during his tenures include $1,375,000 for the 2020 death of Bobby Edward Lee Jr., $750,000 for the 2020 death of Cody Dustin Silvers, $98,000 for Javante Harris-Evans (2021) and $450 for Frank Gillis (2021).

What happened on their watch

Macon State Prison — Chief of Security (2013). The GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger lists two Macon payouts tied to that year's incidents: $5,000 to Willie Frank Wright (Sept. 18, 2013) and $50,000 to William Stoner (Feb. 14, 2013).

Macon State Prison — Deputy Warden (2018–2021). Twenty Macon deaths in the registry fall in this period: Tavoris Terrell Charleston died Jan. 4, 2020; Joseph T. Johnson died Jan. 23, 2020; Johnny Eugene Young died Jan. 27, 2020; Rafael Blas Becerra died March 7, 2020; Carrington Juwon Frye died March 20, 2020; Robert Lee McDowell died May 10, 2020; David Travis Dennis died May 13, 2020; Calvin Lorraine Moore died May 15, 2020; Cody Dustin Silvers died May 23, 2020; James Philpot died June 6, 2020; Bobby Edward Lee Jr. died July 13, 2020; Jeffrey Allen Ferguson died July 18, 2020; Robbie Lee Brower died Oct. 4, 2020; Melvin Wyatt Jenkins died Nov. 29, 2020; Raul Villegas died Dec. 13, 2020; Walter Lee Faust died Dec. 15, 2020; Carlos Maurice Fisher Jr. died May 10, 2021; Roy Daniels died Aug. 12, 2021; Larry Joe Butler died Oct. 22, 2021; Ryan Weston Darville died Dec. 29, 2021 — all at Macon State Prison.

Dooly State Prison — Deputy Warden (2022) and Warden (March 1–June 30, 2023). Eight Dooly deaths are attributed to his tenures there. Under the Deputy Warden role: Richard Lavon Garland died Jan. 1, 2022; Inocente Taboada died March 29, 2022; John Murray died April 14, 2022; Deroski Harris died May 17, 2022; Ralph Scott Clemons died Dec. 24, 2022. Under the Warden role: Jeremy John Wells died March 5, 2023; James Michael Bailey died April 8, 2023; Jared Alexander Hall died June 28, 2023. The settlement ledger lists $3,500 to Thomas Andrew Whittle (March 4, 2023) and $1,000 to Amos Westmoreland (March 24, 2023).

Macon State Prison — Warden (July 1, 2023–Jan. 31, 2025). The 46 Macon deaths attributed to Sales's tenures include the following, per GPS's registry:

• Taurean Dante Hardy died December 10, 2023, at Macon State Prison, at age 40; the registry lists the cause as Homicide.
• Willie A Phillips died October 5, 2023, at Macon State Prison, at age 69; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending — GPS does not yet know the cause.
• Benetez Rayun Parker died January 7, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 43; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• Kenneth Keith Malcom died February 12, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 38; the registry lists the cause as Homicide.
• Jesus Blake Holguin died February 12, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 32; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• Reginald Lamar Ginn died March 13, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 31; the registry lists the cause as Homicide.
• Rashawn Arki Tyson died March 18, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 37; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• James Douglas Talley died April 17, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 62; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• Devontae Marquez Young died May 10, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 28; the registry lists the cause as Homicide.
• Mathis Lee Ward died June 8, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 37; the registry lists the cause as Homicide.
• Rafael Omar Roland died July 9, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 40; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• Jarod Quayshawn Williams died July 17, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 32; the registry lists the cause as Homicide.
• Shannon Wayne Pickett died July 21, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 48; the registry lists the cause as Homicide.
• Brian Richard Ranalli died August 20, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 67; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• Keith Antwone Green died August 30, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 44; the registry lists the cause as Homicide.
• Darrell Brent Dasher died November 3, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 27; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• Johnathan Douglas Vann died November 20, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 26; the registry lists the cause as Homicide.
• Demetrius Marcus Jernigan died November 22, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 36; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• Jimmy L Jones died December 7, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 58; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• Antony Carnell Knight died December 10, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 38; the registry lists the cause as Homicide.
• Jekari Oshay Strozier died December 14, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 31; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• William Louise Wilson died December 28, 2024, at Macon State Prison, at age 56; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• James McDougal died January 16, 2025, at Macon State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• Jonathan Mitchell died January 21, 2025, at Macon State Prison; the registry lists the cause as Homicide.
• David Gill died January 30, 2025, at Macon State Prison, at age 34; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical.

Also during this posting, Henry Finley died Jan. 18, 2025 after being stabbed at Macon State Prison, per the record confirmed by coroner Eddie T. Hosley. AJC reports dated Jan. 21, 2025 carry the allegation that, per the DOJ report, four gang members ran past an officer to the kitchen area and fatally stabbed a prisoner. The same reporting carries Kendrick Malik Brown's mother's allegation that he was placed in a cell with a prisoner known to be dangerous shortly before his scheduled release; a federal lawsuit's allegation that Bobby Edward Lee Jr. was strangled by his convicted-murderer cellmate due to understaffing and indifference by prison officials; and Carrington Juwon Frye's mother's allegation that he bled for more than half an hour after being stabbed before help arrived. Lee and Frye died in 2020, under Sales's earlier Deputy Warden role.

Records also document the torture of Christian Krauch, found with brain bleeds, broken ribs, slashed feet, cigarette burns and a necrotic wound after weeks of abuse, in incidents dated June 2024 and Jan. 5, 2025. Statewide in 2024, GDC investigated 66 homicides among a record 332 prisoner deaths, up about 27% from the prior year, and Gov. Brian Kemp proposed $600 million in staffing, emergency repairs and infrastructure on Jan. 1, 2025.

Litigation

• Southern Center for Human Rights v. Macon State Prison — suits filed Jan. 24, 2025 over overcrowding, inadequate bedding and hygiene, including 96 inmates sharing a single toilet; attorney Sarah Geraghty is named in the records.
• Federal suit over the death of Bobby Edward Lee Jr. — filed Jan. 21, 2025, alleging he was strangled by his cellmate and blaming understaffing and indifference by prison officials.
• No lawsuit in these records names Sales as a defendant.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — "GA prison homicides: a list of those killed in Georgia's prison system" and "Prison system failures cost Georgia taxpayers millions," reports dated Jan. 21, 2025.
• U.S. Department of Justice report — cited by the AJC for the Macon kitchen-stabbing finding.
• Georgia Department of Corrections — 2024 homicide and prisoner-death tallies.
• GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger (Open Records) — payouts tied to Macon (2013, 2020, 2021) and Dooly (2023).
• Court records — Southern Center for Human Rights filing (Jan. 24, 2025) and the federal suit over Bobby Edward Lee Jr.'s death.
• GPS death registry — names, dates and cause listings for deaths at Macon State Prison and Dooly State Prison.

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.