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Scott, Tracey
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Profile written August 23, 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
Tracey Scott appears in GPS personnel records as early as 2015 as a behavioral health counselor, later holding administrative assistant, behavioral health counselor supervisor, and CSM correctional officer roles. Beginning in 2020, the records list Scott as Deputy Warden at Calhoun State Prison, with annual deputy-warden pay recorded through 2025. GPS classifies the deputy-warden post as facility-deputy leadership.All 29 deaths attributed to Scott’s leadership tenure occurred at Calhoun State Prison, according to GPS records. No lawsuit in the dataset names Scott as a defendant. The highest-dollar event tied to the tenure is the February 2023 death of Reginald Jacobs Jr., which produced a $3.25 million state liability payout and a settled federal civil suit.
What happened on their watch
Calhoun State Prison — Deputy Warden (2020–2025)
GPS records attribute 29 deaths to Scott’s Calhoun State Prison tenure. Death-certificate and coroner records obtained by GPS document multiple homicides: Daquavious Lackey, 21, died in May 2022 from a stab wound to the neck and multiple blunt force injuries; Martel Dorsey, 32, was stabbed in November 2023; Kenneth Piper, 37, died in May 2024 from an inmate-to-inmate assault; Gonzalo Colmenero-Ayala, 54, died in July 2024 from multiple blunt force injuries and neck compression; Theodore Roundtree died in January 2025 from sharp force abdominal trauma; and Matthew Nutt, 37, died in December 2025 from blunt force trauma, with the death certificate listing the manner as homicide.The records also include natural deaths, including Jimmy McMullen from pancreatic cancer and Thomas Haugabook from an intracranial hemorrhage, a 2022 death listed as suicide by hanging for Christopher Oliva, and deaths for which no detailed public cause appears. Reginald Jacobs Jr., 24, died in February 2023; the Calhoun County death certificate lists natural manner with dehydration and renal failure as the cause. A lawsuit filed by his family alleges a GDC employee disabled the water to his segregation cell and that required rounds and drinking water were not provided before he was found dead. GPS records list a $3,250,000 state payout tied to that death. WALB reported that the family of Willie Andrew Willis Jr., 27, alleged he was thrown from a balcony in October 2024 and waited nearly an hour for airlift before he died.
Broader investigations overlap this period. According to the AJC, a DOJ report alleged Calhoun staff failed to follow classification and housing procedures in the Lackey homicide. WALB reported DOJ findings that Georgia underreported prison homicides and that emergency responses were delayed by understaffing. On the contraband side, GPS event records show the February 2020 Hot Pockets arrests of two Calhoun correctional officers and the July 2023 dismissal of those charges after evidence was reportedly never sent to the state crime lab. Federal drug-trafficking prosecutions involving people incarcerated at Calhoun also appear in the records.
Litigation
- Jacobs v. GDC, No. 4:25-cv-00111 (M.D. Ga.; removed from Muscogee County State Court No. SC2024CV002716): The family alleged staff cut off water to Reginald Jacobs Jr.’s restrictive-housing cell and failed to provide required rounds or drinking water. The death certificate lists natural manner and dehydration with renal failure. GPS records show a Notice of Settlement dated Aug. 15, 2025, and a Stipulation of Dismissal dated Dec. 16, 2025. The GA DOAS settlement ledger lists a $3,250,000 payout.
Sources
- GPS personnel and mortality records, including Calhoun County death certificates obtained via open-records requests.
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation and reporting on Calhoun deaths.
- WALB — reporting on DOJ findings and the Willie Andrew Willis Jr. family allegations.
- Jacobs v. GDC, 4:25-cv-00111 (M.D. Ga.) and related Muscogee County State Court filings.
- Georgia Department of Administrative Services Risk Management settlement ledger.
- GDC official mortality data and UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project custodial mortality dataset.
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| DEPUTY WARDEN | CALHOUN STATE PRISON | 2020-01-01 → present |
| Deputy Warden | CALHOUN STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL OFFICER 2 | 2020-01-01 → 2022-12-31 | |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL OFFICER 1 | 2019-01-01 → 2019-12-31 | |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR SPV | 2017-01-01 → 2019-12-31 | |
| ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT (GCI) | 2016-01-01 → 2019-12-31 | |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 3 | 2016-01-01 → 2016-12-31 | |
| BEH HEALTH/COUNSELOR (WL) | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Lawsuits as defendant
| Case # | Court | Filed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3:23-cv-00073 | GASD | 2023-08-31 | pending |
Deaths attributed during tenure
29 people died at facilities under Scott, Tracey's leadership.
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