Spinn, Charles J

Tenure Summary

Charles J. Spinn rose through the Georgia Department of Corrections ranks over roughly a decade, beginning as a corrections officer in 2015 and advancing through lieutenant (2016–2018), captain (2019–2020), and CSM correctional unit manager (2021) before moving into facility leadership as a deputy warden from 2022 through 2024. The personnel records compiled by GPS list no facility assignment for any of these postings, so none of his leadership tenures can be tied to a named institution.

GPS attributes zero deaths to Spinn's leadership-tier tenures. His 2022–2024 deputy warden years are the only period covered by facility-leadership accountability tracking, and no deaths, intel reports, or intel events are recorded against him there. No news outlets named him in the records reviewed.

One lawsuit is logged against him as a defendant, described below.

What happened on their watch

Corrections Officer (SP), 2015; Lieutenant, 2016–2018; Captain, 2019–2020; CSM Correctional Unit Manager, 2021. These are non-leadership or unit-supervisor roles and fall outside the facility-leadership accountability tier. No facility is recorded for any of them, and no deaths, intel reports, or intel events are attributed to these periods in the data reviewed.

Deputy Warden, 2022–2024. Spinn held the deputy warden role across three calendar years. No facility is identified in the record for this posting. GPS attributes no deaths to this tenure, lists no deaths by facility, and records no intel reports or intel events dated within it. Because no facility is identified, no comparison to facility-level death totals, DOJ findings, or mass-incident patterns is possible from the available data — the absence of a facility assignment is a gap in the record, not a finding about conditions anywhere.

Litigation

• Middleton v. Ward, No. 5:21-cv-00334 (N.D. Ga., "GAMD"), filed September 10, 2021, terminated March 9, 2022. The case is logged in GPS's records as a suit in which Spinn was a defendant, but the docket style names "Ward" as the defendant and does not name Spinn in the case caption. The filing date falls during Spinn's 2021 tenure as CSM correctional unit manager. No outcome amount is recorded, and the record does not state the claims, the disposition beyond "terminated," or Spinn's specific role in the case. The docket is available via CourtListener at the source link in the record.

Sources

• CourtListener docket — Middleton v. Ward, No. 5:21-cv-00334 (N.D. Ga.), filed Sept. 10, 2021; terminated Mar. 9, 2022.
• Georgia Department of Corrections personnel and salary records (2015–2024) compiled by Georgia Prisoners' Speak — position titles, tiers, and dates for Spinn's career.
• No news mentions, intel reports, intel events, or attributed deaths are recorded against Spinn in the reviewed records.

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.