Showers, Andrea

Tenure Summary

Andrea Showers is listed in Georgia Department of Corrections records as an active employee whose career runs from 2003 to 2026. She served as a correctional officer at Telfair State Prison in 2003, held clerical and property/supply roles at Pulaski State Prison in 2011 and 2013, worked as a behavioral health counselor at Telfair in 2014 and in counselor assignments in 2015–2018 and 2020–2021, and held a community supervision officer post in 2019. Her leadership track begins in 2022, when she was Correctional Asst. Supt at Bleckley Probation Substance Abuse Treatment Center, followed by Correctional Asst. Supt at Pulaski State Prison in 2023, Deputy Warden at Pulaski from January through March 2024, Deputy Warden of Security at Pulaski from April 1, 2024, and Deputy Warden at Pulaski in 2025, with a further Deputy Warden record dated August 27, 2026.

GPS records attribute 16 deaths to her leadership tenures, all of them at Pulaski State Prison; no deaths are attributed to her Bleckley posting. No lawsuit naming her as a defendant appears in the records. The records do include a Georgia Department of Administrative Services Risk Management settlement ledger entry for an $85,000 state liability payout tied to Pulaski State Prison (2024 incident) in the matter of Makayah Howard.

What happened on their watch

Bleckley Probation Substance Abuse Treatment Center — Correctional Asst. Supt (2022; a single-day Correctional Asst. Supt record also dated November 22, 2023)

Pulaski State Prison — Correctional Asst. Supt (2023)

• Sandra Sipsy died January 24, 2023, at Pulaski State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending.
• Pharina S Peterson died May 1, 2023, at Pulaski State Prison; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Cynthia Mccain died September 3, 2023, at Pulaski State Prison; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Sheila Britton died September 22, 2023, at Pulaski State Prison; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.

For all four, GPS does not yet know the cause. Also during this tenure, records describe a July 15, 2023, inmate disturbance in which 11 inmates destroyed building property using weapons including broomsticks, a crowbar, metal spray, shanks and locks, with chemical spray used and nine security staff responding; a July 9, 2023, air-conditioning mechanical issue resolved the same day, which GDC said showed no indication of being related to deaths; and a Department of Justice investigation record dated October 31, 2023, documenting constitutional violations at Pulaski State Prison.

Pulaski State Prison — Deputy Warden (Jan 1–Mar 31, 2024) and Deputy Warden of Security (from Apr 1, 2024)

• Ramada Lesha Butts died April 16, 2024, at Pulaski State Prison; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Tracy Michelle Graves died May 16, 2024, at Pulaski State Prison; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Lesley Bell Owens died July 23, 2024, at Pulaski State Prison; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.

Allegations recorded against this tenure include an Atlanta Journal-Constitution report dated May 13, 2024, that Deputy Warden Alonzo L. McMillian was accused of having a sexual relationship with a prisoner and engaging in improper sexual contact on February 24 and 25; arrest warrants cited by the AJC state the same. Records show McMillian was arrested, booked, and released the next day on a $10,000 bond, and that a GDC spokesperson, Joan Heath, confirmed he and a second employee, Clark, were terminated May 2, 2024. The AJC reported that the alleged sexual misconduct of two prison supervisors could signal a larger systemic problem within GDC. Records also note a DOJ civil rights investigation of the Georgia prison system and an October 1, 2024, DOJ investigation record documenting constitutional violations at Pulaski State Prison.

Pulaski State Prison — Deputy Warden (2025)

• Stephanie Sabrina Gary died March 5, 2025, at Pulaski State Prison.
• Esmeralda Carillo Hernandez died May 22, 2025, at Pulaski State Prison.
• Candace Lajon Morgan died June 11, 2025, at Pulaski State Prison.
• Ronika Lashawn Carswell died December 12, 2025, at Pulaski State Prison.

A January 21, 2025, AJC report alleges that Bonnie Rocheleau failed to get adequate care at Pulaski when she developed pneumonia, leading to her death, and that Mollianne Fischer failed to receive adequate medical care and was left in a vegetative state. The same report alleges officers and staff did not notice a prisoner being stabbed until an outside caller reported it, and that the prisoner said she had been assaulted hours earlier by 10 people. GPS received reports dated April 1, 2025, of intimidation, retaliation, extended lockdowns and grievance-process failures under new warden Wendy Jackson, and of an incident in which Pamela Dixon's daughter was subjected to gang extortion at Pulaski, with $10,000 recorded.

Pulaski State Prison — Deputy Warden / Deputy Warden of Security (2026)

• Denecia Nichelle Randall died March 30, 2026, at Pulaski State Prison; GPS's registry lists the cause as Suicide, age 28.
• Karen Michelle Lindsey died May 24, 2026, at Pulaski State Prison; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Tulia Eustache died June 3, 2026, at Pulaski State Prison; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Monika Yvette Bradley died July 5, 2026, at Pulaski State Prison; cause listed as Unknown/Pending.
• Kristi Ray Perkins died July 12, 2026, at Pulaski State Prison; cause listed as Natural/Medical.

Records dated July 14, 2026, show the GDC Office of Professional Standards investigating the deaths of Kristi Perkins and Monika Bradley as standard procedure, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation investigating to determine their causes of death. A GPS case submission dated April 6, 2026, reports a family member's allegation that an incarcerated person at Pulaski was subjected to a severe physical assault by other incarcerated individuals, and that a prior warning call to the facility went unaddressed. GPS reports dated February 10, 2026, describe a pattern of intimidation, retaliation, extended lockdowns and grievance-process failures under warden Wendy Jackson.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — allegations about medical care, a stabbing unnoticed by staff, and the alleged sexual misconduct of two supervisors at Pulaski State Prison
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak — case submission allegation (April 6, 2026) and reports on conditions at Pulaski State Prison (2025, 2026)
• U.S. Department of Justice — investigation records documenting constitutional violations at Pulaski State Prison
• Georgia Department of Corrections — Office of Professional Standards investigations; spokesperson statements
• Georgia Bureau of Investigation — death investigations
• Georgia Department of Administrative Services Risk Management settlement ledger (open records) — $85,000 payout, Makayah Howard, Pulaski State Prison (2024)
• GPS death registry — deaths at Pulaski State Prison during Showers's leadership tenures

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 27, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.