Smith, Mark A

Tenure Summary

Mark A. Smith’s documented Georgia Department of Corrections career spans 2015 through 2025, recorded in annual position and salary filings. Smith entered as a Criminal Investigator (AL) in 2015 at $38,251.11, advanced to Criminal Investigator 2 in 2016 and Criminal Investigator 3 in 2017, and then held a single one-year post outside the investigator series: Deputy Warden in 2018, at $75,065.59. From 2019 through 2025 Smith is listed continuously as a Criminal Investigator 3, ending at $80,434.41 in 2025. No facility is named in the records for any of these postings.

The headline accountability facts are limited. GPS personnel data attributes zero deaths to any facility-leadership tenure held by Smith, and its per-facility death breakdown is empty. Two federal lawsuits name Smith as a defendant — Jackson v. Bishop and Green v. Hooks — both terminated with no monetary outcome recorded. Neither was filed during a facility-leadership posting: per court records, both were filed while Smith held criminal-investigator titles.

What happened on their watch

Deputy Warden, 2018 — Smith’s only posting in the facility-deputy tier. No facility is identified for this assignment in the records, and no deaths are attributed to it. No intel reports or intel events are recorded against this tenure.

Criminal Investigator (AL), 2015; Criminal Investigator 2, 2016; Criminal Investigator 3, 2017, 2019–2025 — these are staff-tier investigator positions rather than facility-leadership roles, and the records supply only the titles, dates and annual salaries listed above. No deaths are attributed to them, and no litigation is recorded as filed during the 2018 Deputy Warden year.

Because Smith’s input carries no deaths attributed to facility-leader tenures and no news coverage naming them, GPS records show no facility-level death pattern to narrate. What the file does document is the two terminated federal suits below.

Litigation

• Jackson v. Bishop, case no. 5:17-cv-00325, court GAMD, filed 2017-08-24, closed 2019-03-29, status terminated, no outcome amount recorded. Per court records, the filing date falls within Smith’s 2017 Criminal Investigator 3 tenure.
• Green v. Hooks, case no. 6:14-cv-00046, court GASD, filed 2014-05-17, closed 2017-03-21, status terminated, no outcome amount recorded. Per court records, the filing predates Smith’s earliest listed GDC position (2015) and closed during the 2017 Criminal Investigator 3 tenure.

Neither docket, as recorded, establishes a finding against Smith, and no disposition beyond “terminated” is documented.

Sources

• CourtListener dockets — Jackson v. Bishop, 5:17-cv-00325 (GAMD) and Green v. Hooks, 6:14-cv-00046 (GASD), via the docket links filed in the GPS personnel record.
• Georgia Department of Corrections position and salary filings, 2015–2025, as reflected in the GPS personnel file for Mark A. Smith.

No deaths were recorded against Smith’s leadership tenures; individuals named in the underlying death records are not listed in this file.

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.