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Smokes, Eric Daniel
Not on GDC's 2025 payroll (last listed 2023)
Profile written September 23, 2026
This profile reflects positional accountability — this individual held the leadership roles shown during the dates shown, during which the listed deaths or lawsuits occurred. Inclusion does not constitute a legal finding of personal culpability for any specific incident.
Tenure Summary
Eric Daniel Smokes appears in Georgia Department of Corrections personnel records across nine consecutive years, beginning in 2015 as a Correction Administration employee and advancing through Correctional Unit Manager (2016), Correctional Assistant Superintendent (2017–2020), and Deputy Warden (2021–2023). None of the listed postings carries a facility assignment in the records compiled by Georgia Prisoners' Speak; the entries document title, year, and salary only.
Per GPS's compiled death-attribution data, zero deaths are attributed to facility-leader tenures held by Smokes, and the records contain no death entries, facility-level intelligence reports, intelligence events, or news reports naming him. He is named as a defendant in one federal lawsuit, described below.
What happened on their watch
Because none of Smokes's positions is tied to a named facility in the records, there is no facility-tenure narrative to reconstruct. His documented roles and dates are: Correction Administration, 2015; Correctional Unit Manager, 2016; Correctional Assistant Superintendent, 2017–2020; and Deputy Warden, 2021–2023. The death-attribution data records no deaths connected to any leadership tenure of his, and no allegations, incidents, or named decedents appear in the underlying records for these periods. The only adversarial filing in the data is the federal case below.
Litigation
- Quintanilla v. Bryson, No. 6:17-cv-00004 (S.D. Ga.) — filed January 9, 2017; terminated March 24, 2020; no outcome amount recorded. Smokes is listed among the defendants per court records. The docket is the only record in this dataset documenting his involvement; the filings' underlying allegations are not summarized in the data provided.
Sources
- CourtListener docket — Quintanilla v. Bryson, No. 6:17-cv-00004 (S.D. Ga.), filed Jan. 9, 2017, terminated Mar. 24, 2020.
- Georgia Department of Corrections personnel and salary records (2015–2023), as compiled by Georgia Prisoners' Speak — positions, titles, and salary years for Eric Daniel Smokes.
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| DEPUTY WARDEN | 2021-01-01 → 2023-12-31 | |
| CORRECTIONAL ASST. SUPT | 2017-01-01 → 2020-12-31 | |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL UNIT MANAGER | 2016-01-01 → 2016-12-31 | |
| CORRECTION ADMINISTRATION | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Lawsuits as defendant
| Case # | Court | Filed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:17-cv-00004 | GASD | 2017-01-09 | terminated |
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