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Sales, Timothy Deshaun
Status: active
Profile written August 23, 2026
Current Position
Warden 3
Salary
$106,282
2025 · state payroll
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
Timothy Deshaun Sales’s documented Georgia Department of Corrections career spans more than two decades. GPS records place him as a sergeant at Dooly State Prison in 2003, a lieutenant at Rutledge State Prison in 2006, Chief of Security at Macon State Prison in 2013, and in correctional administration and unit-manager roles at Macon in 2015–2016. He was a unit manager at Autry State Prison in 2017, Deputy Warden at Macon from 2018 through 2021, Deputy Warden at Dooly State Prison in 2022, Warden at Dooly from March through June 2023, and Warden at Macon from July 2023 through January 2025. GPS attributes 54 deaths to Sales’s documented facility tenures — 46 at Macon State Prison and 8 at Dooly State Prison. The structured record lists no lawsuits naming Sales as a defendant.What happened on their watch
Macon State Prison — Deputy Warden, 2018–2021
GPS attributes 46 Macon deaths across Sales’s Macon postings. During his deputy-warden term, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation documents multiple deaths classified in GPS records as homicides, including Bobby Edward Lee, who died by ligature strangulation in July 2020. The AJC reports that a federal lawsuit claim alleged Lee was placed with a prisoner who had already killed a fellow parolee despite pleas for protection, and that no officers responded until after he was strangled. Carrington Jwon Frye’s mother alleged he bled for more than half an hour before help arrived, according to the AJC. Other sampled Macon deaths in this period include Ryan Weston Darville, Carlos Maurice Fisher, Raul Villegas, Robbie Lee Brower, Cody Dustin Silvers, David Travis Dennis, Rafael Becerra Blass, and Johnny Young, all with cause details drawn from the AJC investigation. The sampled records also include deaths GDC coded as natural or suicide in the UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project custodial mortality dataset, which reflects GDC’s own classifications.Dooly State Prison — Deputy Warden, 2022; Warden, March–June 2023
GPS attributes 8 deaths at Dooly State Prison. Sampled decedents during the 2022 deputy-warden posting are Ralph Scott Clemons, Deroski Harris, John Murray, Inocente Taboada, and Richard Lavon Garland. The 2023 warden-posting sample includes Jeremy John Wells, James Michael Bailey, and Jared Alexander Hall. All eight sampled Dooly deaths carry an undetermined/awaiting-autopsy cause category in the GPS record.Macon State Prison — Warden, July 2023–January 2025
Sampled deaths during Sales’s Macon warden term include Kevin Deshawn Lamar, Taurean Dante Hardy, Reginald Lamar Ginn, Kenneth Keith Malcom, Mathis Lee Ward, Devontae Marquez Young, Jarod Quayshawn Williams, Shannon Wayne Pickett, Keith Antwone Green, Antony Carnell Knight, and Johnathan Douglas Vann, with cause details documented by the AJC investigation or GPS research. Antony Knight’s body was sent to the GBI Crime Lab, per 41NBC; Johnathan Vann died after a fight with another inmate, according to 13WMAZ, WALB, and WGXA. Jonathan Mitchell’s January 2025 death appears in a GDC-released mortality report as “Homicide due to Head Trauma”; the AJC reported that Jon Edward Pippin was accused of beating Mitchell and reportedly confessed to the assault. David Gill’s January 2025 death shows a conflicting record: the GDC-released January 2025 mortality data listed “Suicide due to a Drug Overdose,” but a GBI Medical Examiner report later certified “Sudden cardiac death” and manner natural, contradicting the GDC entry. AJC reporting during this period described Macon State Prison as critically understaffed, with about two-thirds of correctional officer jobs unfilled as of October 2024 and a coroner reporting only five to eight officers staffing the entire facility when responding to deaths. A DOJ account cited by the AJC described four gang members running past an officer to fatally stab a prisoner. GPS intel records also note the September 2024 arrest of four Macon correctional officers on charges of violating their oath and providing false statements.Sources
- GPS personnel and mortality records for Timothy Deshaun Sales (ID 4249)
- GDC-released January 2025 mortality data (David Gill and Jonathan Mitchell)
- GBI Medical Examiner report ME-25-40093 / DOFS 2025-4000740 (David Gill)
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation and prison-staffing coverage
- UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project custodial mortality dataset (GDC-coded causes, 2015–2021)
- 41NBC — death of Antony Knight at Macon State Prison
- 13WMAZ, WALB, and WGXA — death of Johnathan Douglas Vann and facility incident coverage
- DOJ account cited by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution regarding a fatal stabbing at Macon State Prison
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| WARDEN 3 | 2024-01-01 → present | |
| Warden 3 | MACON STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| Warden | MACON STATE PRISON | 2023-07-01 → 2025-01-31 |
| Warden | DOOLY STATE PRISON | 2023-03-01 → 2023-06-30 |
| WARDEN 1 | DOOLY STATE PRISON | 2023-03-01 → 2023-06-30 |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | DOOLY STATE PRISON | 2022-01-01 → 2022-12-31 |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | MACON STATE PRISON | 2018-01-01 → 2021-12-31 |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL UNIT MANAGER | AUTRY STATE PRISON | 2017-01-01 → 2017-12-31 |
| CORRECTIONAL UNIT MANAGER | MACON STATE PRISON | 2016-01-01 → 2016-12-31 |
| CORRECTION ADMINISTRATION | MACON STATE PRISON | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
| Chief of Security | MACON STATE PRISON | 2013-01-01 → 2013-12-31 |
| Lieutenant | RUTLEDGE STATE PRISON | 2006-01-01 → 2006-12-31 |
| Sergeant | DOOLY STATE PRISON | 2003-01-01 → 2003-12-31 |
Lawsuits as defendant
| Case # | Court | Filed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:19-cv-00236 | GAMD | 2019-06-14 | terminated |
Deaths attributed during tenure
54 people died at facilities under Sales, Timothy Deshaun's leadership.
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