Showers, Andrea

Tenure Summary

Andrea Showers began her Georgia Department of Corrections career in 2003 as a correctional officer at Telfair State Prison, later moving through behavioral health counselor and community supervision roles. Her first facility-leadership posting came in 2022, when she served as Correctional Assistant Superintendent at the Bleckley Probation Substance Abuse Treatment Center; no deaths are attributed to that facility during her posting. Showers returned to a women’s prison in 2023 as Correctional Assistant Superintendent at Pulaski State Prison, and was promoted through Deputy Warden and Deputy Warden of Security, a position she still holds. GPS records attribute a total of twelve deaths to Pulaski State Prison during Showers’ leadership tenure there. None of these fatalities have led to lawsuits naming Showers as a defendant. The period was marked by a U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation into the facility and public revelations of systemic failures, including staff sexual misconduct and failures to notice violence, though no direct connection to Showers has been established.

What happened on their watch

Pulaski State Prison — 2023 (Correctional Assistant Superintendent)
Showers began as the facility deputy on January 1, 2023. Over the year, four incarcerated women died: Sandra Sipsy (54, Jan. 24), Pharina Peterson (75, May 1), Cynthia McCain (65, Sept. 3), and Sheila Britton (60, Sept. 22). GPS records classify all four deaths as cause category 6 (unknown/pending), and the database contains no coroner determinations for these cases. That July, an inmate disturbance involving eleven people using weapons such as broomsticks and shanks required chemical spray and a response by nine security staff, according to GPS intel events. In October 2023, a Department of Justice investigation into Georgia prisons issued findings that documented constitutional violations at Pulaski State Prison.

Pulaski State Prison — 2024 (Deputy Warden / Deputy Warden of Security)
Showers held the rank of Deputy Warden from January through March 2024, then was appointed Deputy Warden of Security on April 1, 2024, a role she continues to occupy. During the calendar year, three deaths were recorded: Ramada Butts (52, Apr. 16), Tracy Graves (45, May 16), and Lesley Owens (49, July 23). All are listed in GPS records as cause category 6, pending final determination. In May 2024, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported the arrest of Deputy Warden Alonzo L. McMillian on charges of sexual contact with a prisoner at Pulaski; McMillian was terminated the same day. The AJC also noted that the arrested supervisor’s alleged conduct might signal a broader systemic problem. That year, the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil rights investigation into Georgia prisons remained active, with reports specifically referencing constitutional violations documented at Pulaski State Prison.

Pulaski State Prison — 2025–2026 (Deputy Warden of Security)
In 2025, four more women died: Stephanie Gary (55, Mar. 5), Esmeralda Hernandez (50, May 22), Candace Morgan (41, Jun. 11), and Ronika Carswell (50, Dec. 12). According to Pulaski County Coroner Fred J. Clark III’s handwritten reports, later transcribed by GPS, Gary, Hernandez, and Morgan died of natural causes (cancer); Carswell’s body was sent to the GBI Crime Lab for autopsy, and her cause remains pending. In early 2025, the AJC detailed an incident in which officers and staff at Pulaski failed to notice that a prisoner had been stabbed until an outside caller reported it. The AJC also highlighted two earlier cases that had resulted in large taxpayer-funded settlements for inadequate medical care at the prison — Mollianne Fischer’s vegetative state and Bonnie Rocheleau’s death from pneumonia — underscoring long-standing concerns about medical neglect. A GPS user report in March 2026 described the death of Deneicia Randall, 28, who died in late March while in lockdown; the report alleges suicide, but the account has not been independently corroborated. That death is the twelfth logged by GPS during Showers’ Pulaski assignments.

Litigation

No lawsuits naming Andrea Showers as a defendant are recorded in the GPS database.

Sources

• GPS records (positions, death counts, death-in-custody listings, intel events)
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on Fischer and Rocheleau settlements, McMillian arrest, stabbing incident overlooked by staff, and the broader prison-system crisis
• Pulaski County Coroner Fred J. Clark III — death investigation reports for 2025 deaths (available through GPS coroner records)
• U.S. Department of Justice — civil rights investigation findings, as reflected in GPS intel events

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on May 31, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.