Samuel, Chanel

Tenure Summary

Chanel Samuel holds the Warden post at Burruss Correctional Training Center (Burruss C.T.C) in Georgia, a facility-leadership position that began July 5, 2026 and remains active with no listed end date. Samuel's record contains a single leadership-tier posting; no prior or concurrent facility-lead positions appear in the available records, and no salary information is listed.

One death is attributed to Samuel's tenure as Warden of Burruss C.T.C, per GPS records compiled from facility and death records. No lawsuits naming Samuel as a defendant appear in the records, and no intelligence reports, intel events, or news articles naming Samuel are documented in connection with this posting.

What happened on their watch

Warden, Burruss C.T.C — began July 5, 2026 (ongoing)

Per GPS records, one death is attributed to Samuel's tenure as Warden at Burruss C.T.C. On July 15, 2026 — ten days into her tenure — Ashley Lloyd Neesmith, 50, died at the facility while Samuel held the Warden role. The record categorizes the death under cause category 4 and carries no attached public narrative describing the circumstances. No cause-of-death detail beyond that categorization is available in these records, and no family statement, official account, or investigative finding is documented.

Beyond that single death, the records contain no intel reports dated within Samuel's tenure at Burruss C.T.C, no intel events, and no news coverage naming her. Because the available intel lists cover only the period of her leadership at the facility, nothing in this record speaks to conditions or incidents at Burruss C.T.C before July 5, 2026 — a limitation of the data rather than a statement about that period. Her tenure is young: the records span roughly the first weeks of a posting with no end date listed, so the absence of additional documented incidents reflects the short window covered, not a finding about the facility's overall record.

Sources

• Georgia Prisoners' Speak personnel and position records — Warden appointment at Burruss C.T.C effective July 5, 2026
• GPS death records — death of Ashley Lloyd Neesmith, age 50, at Burruss C.T.C, July 15, 2026 (cause category 4; no public narrative attached)

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Note on scope: No lawsuits, disciplinary findings, DOJ documents, audit findings, or media reports naming Chanel Samuel appear in the source records. Nothing in this profile should be read as a legal conclusion about responsibility for the death recorded above; the record establishes only that Samuel held the Warden role at Burruss C.T.C on the date of that death.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 23, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.