Singleton, Artis Jerome

Tenure Summary

Artis Jerome Singleton's recorded career with the Georgia Department of Corrections spans 2015 through 2021, according to GDC position and salary records. He entered the leadership tier as "Warden 1" in 2016 and 2017, stepped back into a senior administrative post ("Sr Mgr, Correctional Admin") in 2018, and then returned to the warden rank across 2019, 2020, and 2021.

GPS's compiled records attribute zero deaths to Singleton's leadership tenures. No facility is identified in the position records for any of his postings, and his file contains no incident reports, no intelligence events, and no news coverage naming him. The one accountability-relevant item in his record is a federal lawsuit in which he is listed as a defendant: Sumrall v. Georgia Department of Corrections, filed in 2021 while he held the Warden 1 role and terminated in 2023.

What happened on their watch

Warden 1 — 2016 and 2017 (facility not identified in records). Two consecutive years at the warden tier, at a combined recorded salary of $71,352 (2016) and $73,492.56 (2017), per GDC position records. No deaths are attributed to Singleton's tenure in GPS's data, and the records list no facility assignment for either year.

Sr Mgr, Correctional Admin — 2018 (facility not identified in records). A non-facility-leadership posting; recorded salary $74,962.32. Consistent with GPS's methodology, non-leadership periods are not covered by the incident datasets, so no report or event data is tied to this year.

Warden 1 — 2019, 2020, and 2021 (facility not identified in records). Located salary records show $75,362.32 (2019), $76,461.60 (2020), and $46,802.11 (2021) — the last consistent with a partial year of service. As with his earlier warden years, GPS's records attribute no deaths to these tenures, and contain no intelligence reports or events dated within them. No news reports naming Singleton appear in the file. Because no facility is listed for any warden posting, GPS's data does not support drawing facility-level comparisons for his tenure.

Litigation

• Sumrall v. Georgia Department of Corrections, No. 5:21-cv-00187, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia (GAMD). Filed June 7, 2021; terminated April 26, 2023. Singleton is recorded as a defendant. No monetary outcome is recorded in the docket data. The filing date falls within his 2021 Warden 1 tenure; the input does not state the claims raised or the disposition beyond termination.

Sources

• U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia / CourtListener docket — Sumrall v. Georgia Department of Corrections, 5:21-cv-00187
• Georgia Department of Corrections position and salary records (2015–2021), compiled by Georgia Prisoners' Speak

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.