Smith, Lachesha Pleshette

Tenure Summary

Lachesha Pleshette Smith's documented Georgia Department of Corrections career spans 2015 through a 2026 record, moving from line staff into facility leadership. The GPS personnel dataset lists her as a corrections officer (SP) in 2015 at $39,508.80, a CSM correctional lieutenant in 2016, and a CSM correctional unit manager each year from 2017 through 2022, with salary rising from $45,941.61 to $62,682.82. She is recorded as a deputy warden in 2023 at $70,837.68, including a single-date facility assignment as Deputy Warden at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison dated November 22, 2023. From 2024 she appears as a correctional senior manager ($74,378.42 in 2024; $86,279.27 in 2025), with a further single-date "Sr Mgr, Correctional" record dated August 27, 2026.

The headline accountability figure is zero: the total number of deaths attributed to Smith's leadership tenures is 0, and the per-facility breakdown of attributed deaths is empty. GPS's data attributes no death to any facility posting she has held. No intelligence reports or intelligence events are recorded against any facility during her tenures, and no news reports naming her appear in the dataset. She is, however, listed as a defendant in three federal matters in the Middle District of Georgia, all still pending or terminated without a recorded payout.

What happened on their watch

Unit supervisor years, 2016–2022. Smith held the CSM correctional lieutenant role in 2016 and the CSM correctional unit manager role from 2017 through 2022. The dataset assigns no facility to these salaried postings and records no intelligence reports or intelligence events against these roles. No deaths are attributed to this period.

Deputy warden, 2023 — Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison. Smith's only facility-specific leadership record is a Deputy Warden assignment at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison dated November 22, 2023. No deaths are attributed to this posting, and the dataset contains no intelligence reports or intelligence events dated inside this tenure. Because this is a single-date record, no incident pattern can be described from the data, and the absence of recorded items here should not be read as a finding about conditions at the facility.

Senior manager, 2024–2026. Smith appears as a correctional senior manager for 2024 and 2025 and in a single-date "Sr Mgr, Correctional" record dated August 27, 2026. These are staff-tier postings; no facility is assigned and no deaths, intelligence reports, or intelligence events are attributed to them.

Litigation

• Allen v. Georgia Department of Correction, No. 5:26-cv-00085 (M.D. Ga.), filed March 5, 2026 — pending; no recorded outcome. Smith is listed in GPS's court-records compilation as a defendant. The case caption does not include her name.
• Miller v. Holt, No. 5:25-cv-00356 (M.D. Ga.), filed August 25, 2025 — pending; no recorded outcome. Smith is listed as a defendant; the caption names neither party as Smith.
• Diamond v. Ward, No. 5:20-cv-00453 (M.D. Ga.), filed December 1, 2020 — terminated January 23, 2023; no outcome amount recorded. Smith is listed as a defendant.

The dockets supplied do not include the substance of the claims, so no allegation is characterized here.

Sources

• CourtListener federal dockets, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia — Allen v. Georgia Department of Correction (5:26-cv-00085), Miller v. Holt (5:25-cv-00356), Diamond v. Ward (5:20-cv-00453)
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak personnel dataset — GDC position titles, salary years and amounts (2015–2025), the November 22, 2023 Deputy Warden assignment at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, and the attributed-death count for Smith's leadership tenures (0)

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.