Scott, Tracey

Tenure Summary

Tracey Scott entered the Georgia Department of Corrections payroll in 2015 as a behavioral health counselor, moving through behavioral-health counselor supervisor and administrative roles before taking a Deputy Warden post at Calhoun State Prison in 2020. Salary records show Scott in the Calhoun deputy warden position in every year from 2020 through 2025, and GDC records list the title Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment at Calhoun from July 16, 2026.

GPS's death registry attributes 28 deaths to Scott's leadership tenures — all 28 at Calhoun State Prison. The registry's recorded causes across those entries include homicide, natural/medical, suicide, deliberate indifference, and a substantial group still listed Unknown/Pending. Two state liability settlements are tied to Calhoun during this span: $3,250,000 paid to Reginald Jacobs Sr. for the Estate of Reginald Jacobs Jr. for a 2023 incident, and $1,400 to Lasharon Brantley for a 2020 incident, according to the Georgia Department of Administrative Services Risk Management settlement ledger obtained through open records. Scott's status is listed as active.

What happened on their watch

Calhoun State Prison — Deputy Warden, 2020 through 2025

Deaths recorded in GPS's registry fall within every year of this posting. The homicide entries carry the most documented detail. Daquavious Lackey, 21, died May 16, 2022, from a stab wound of the neck and multiple blunt-force injuries; according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's account of the DOJ's findings, staff failed to follow procedures when moving Lackey's assailant between segregation and general population, leading to Lackey being housed with and killed by his cellmate, who beat him with a fan motor in a net bag. Martel Orlando Dorsey died November 24, 2023; the GDC told a television station that several witnesses saw Dorsey run out of a dorm as he was chased by other prisoners after he was stabbed. Kenneth Scott Piper died May 4, 2024, and Gonzalo Colmenero-Ayala died July 17, 2024, both following inmate-to-inmate assaults, per incident report data. Willie Andrew Willis died October 21, 2024; a GPS case submission reports catastrophic injuries after he was reportedly thrown from a balcony, with medical records listing sepsis as the cause, and the family alleges nearly an hour passed before he was airlifted.

In January 2025 the AJC reported that prison staff at Calhoun cut off a prisoner's food and water as retaliation, leading to his death from dehydration and renal failure. The registry separately lists Reginald Jerome Jr. Jacobs, 24, as dying at Calhoun on February 6, 2023, with the cause recorded as deliberate indifference; the Jacobs estate settlement is the larger of the two liability payouts tied to the facility.

Contraband phones and drug trafficking ran through the facility during the same period. The AJC reported in September 2024 that Edwin Murillo brokered major meth sales from Calhoun and was later sentenced to life for directing a 2021 torture and murder; that Jonathan Alvin Pope led a drug ring operating in at least seven counties, with 13 indicted, seven of them incarcerated; that Pedro Barragan Valencia was sentenced to 400 months for brokering at least 250 kilograms of meth; and that Irvin Falcon was sentenced to 260 months. In June 2025 the AJC reported that the GDC failed to submit drug evidence to the state crime lab in at least 11 dismissed cases involving 15 defendants, including five prison employees, and that the Calhoun County Sheriff's Department similarly failed to submit evidence in 12 dismissed cases. Those dismissals included charges against correctional officers Corlethia Lattimore (alleged to have carried 112 grams of methamphetamine in a Hot Pockets package) and Imani Ferguson (alleged tobacco), arrested in February 2020 and dismissed in July 2023; District Attorney Joe Mulholland dismissed nearly two dozen cases covering 33 arrests between 2018 and 2021, and a June 2, 2025 grand jury heard 35 cases with more than 300 still pending, per the AJC. The same reporting found the GDC's public statement on dismissed cases conflicted with what the AJC found in court files. Records also show the GDC paid Sheriff Josh Hilton and eight deputies nearly $127,000 in the first three months of 2025 for off-duty perimeter patrol at $45 per hour, and that a Managed Access System was installed at Calhoun in mid-2025, after the contraband-phone schemes described below had already occurred.

Calhoun State Prison — Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment, from July 16, 2026

Randy Walton died at Calhoun on August 21, 2026. Inmate case submissions dated September 16 and 17, 2026, describe a lockdown amid a gang conflict reported to have spread from another state facility, and a fight in which two people were taken to the hospital. On October 17, 2026, FOX 5 Atlanta reported that Lance Riddle was sentenced to 200 months and Joey Amour Jackson to 120 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, in a jury-duty scam run with contraband cellphones from Calhoun — the smuggling method was not confirmed — in which inmates spoofed police department numbers and posed as officers demanding bond payments, and some victims were told to undress in a Target restroom and film a self-conducted cavity search before receiving lewd messages and violent threats. The AJC reported on September 28, 2026, that a Florida sheriff described a "huge scam" run out of Calhoun and Wheeler Correctional Institution, and that Annie Ashley is accused of taking $15,000 from a woman near Daytona Beach.

Deaths in GPS's registry during Scott's tenure at Calhoun State Prison

• Randy Walton, 67, died August 21, 2026; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• Matthew Len Nutt, 37, died December 21, 2025; cause listed as Homicide.
• Thomas Haugabook, 67, died September 25, 2025; cause listed as Natural/Medical.
• Tyler Jackson, 30, died June 28, 2025; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Gary Bernard Duncan, 67, died May 4, 2025; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Theodore Roundtree died January 19, 2025; cause listed as Homicide.
• Charles Owens died January 6, 2025; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Kent Tyrik Robinson, 26, died November 5, 2024; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Willie Andrew Willis, 27, died October 21, 2024; cause listed as Homicide.
• William Dutton Maddox, 62, died August 1, 2024; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Terry Paul Smith, 62, died July 20, 2024; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Gonzalo Colmenero-Ayala, 54, died July 17, 2024; cause listed as Homicide.
• Tyler Jackson Blackwell, 31, died July 13, 2024; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Kenneth Scott Piper, 37, died May 4, 2024; cause listed as Homicide.
• Martel Orlando Dorsey, 32, died November 24, 2023; cause listed as Homicide.
• Randy Dixon, 63, died November 23, 2023; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Paul Russell Gordon, 63, died November 13, 2023; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Sergio Andres Lopez-Herrera, 41, died July 15, 2023; cause listed as Natural/Medical.
• Reginald Jerome Jr. Jacobs, 24, died February 6, 2023; cause listed as Deliberate Indifference.
• Timothy Edwin Bryant, 64, died October 11, 2022; cause listed as Natural/Medical.
• James Thomas Ennis, 63, died September 30, 2022; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Daquavious Lackey, 21, died May 16, 2022; cause listed as Homicide.
• Christopher Edward Oliva, 43, died April 9, 2022; cause listed as Suicide.
• James Stanley Powell, 63, died April 2, 2022; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Christopher Iles, 48, died March 10, 2021; cause listed as Natural/Medical.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — DOJ findings on the Lackey homicide; the January 2025 dehydration-death report; the June 2025 investigation into untested drug evidence and dismissed smuggling cases; the September 2024 reporting on prison-run drug networks; the September 2026 Florida scam report.
• FOX 5 Atlanta — October 2026 sentencings in the Calhoun jury-duty phone scam.
• Georgia Department of Administrative Services Risk Management settlement ledger (open records) — Jacobs and Brantley liability payouts tied to Calhoun State Prison.
• GPS inmate case submissions — September 2026 fight and lockdown reports at Calhoun State Prison.
• GPS death registry — cause and date of each death listed above.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 18, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.