Thompson, Katrina Louise

Tenure Summary

Katrina Louise Thompson has held the Correctional Assistant Superintendent post (Correctional Asst. Supt) at the Charles D. Hudson Transitional Center in state personnel records covering 2022 through 2025, with a further position entry dated Aug. 27, 2026. Her recorded salary at the facility climbed from $58,548.10 in 2022 to $59,048.16 in 2023, $65,511.32 in 2024 and $71,093.21 in 2025 — an uninterrupted run at the same facility and the same title across all four salary years. GPS classifies the assistant superintendent role as a facility-deputy accountability tier.

During that leadership tenure, GPS attributes one death to the facility: Mickey Skyles, age 62, who died on June 24, 2025, with Thompson recorded as Correctional Asst. Supt on the date of death. The record for Skyles carries no public narrative and a cause category coded as 6. No lawsuits naming Thompson as a defendant appear in the records. One $200,000 state liability settlement tied to a 2023 incident at the Hudson Transitional Center was paid out under a facility where she held the assistant superintendent role; the settlement is recorded in the Georgia Department of Administrative Services Risk Management settlement ledger, released through an open records request, and names Brenda Etheridge as the claimant. No news coverage naming Thompson directly appears in the records.

What happened on their watch

Charles D. Hudson Transitional Center — Correctional Asst. Supt, 2022 through 2025

The single death attributed to Thompson's tenure at Hudson is that of Mickey Skyles, 62, recorded on June 24, 2025, at a point when the personnel records list her as Correctional Asst. Supt at the facility. The death entry includes no public narrative and a cause category of 6; the records do not describe the circumstances of Skyles's death.

Two other matters fall inside the same tenure window. On April 6, 2025, GPS incident records for Hudson describe a CERT team use-of-force episode in which multiple residents were allegedly beaten without justification. The entries name resident Michael Schullerman as having been beaten — one record states his lip was split and required 12 stitches — and allege that he was coerced into signing a false statement about his injury. A separate entry for the same date names Lt. Lonesca Carlton, and another describes the assault on residents generally. These are incident-log allegations, not adjudicated findings, and no disciplinary or court outcome is recorded in the data provided.

The settlement attributed to Hudson concerns an earlier incident: the Risk Management ledger records a $200,000 state liability payout tied to the facility, keyed to a 2023 incident and dated April 6, 2023, with Brenda Etheridge named as claimant. Thompson's role at the facility on that date is recorded as Correctional Asst. Supt. The ledger does not describe the underlying incident, and no lawsuit naming Thompson personally appears in the records.

The records contain no intelligence reports for these facilities, and no news mentions naming Thompson. Those absences are gaps in the dataset, not evidence about conditions at Hudson during periods the data does not cover.

Sources

• Georgia Department of Administrative Services, Risk Management settlement ledger (obtained via open records request) — $200,000 liability payout tied to Charles D. Hudson Transitional Center, 2023 incident, claimant Brenda Etheridge
• GPS personnel records for Katrina Louise Thompson — position, title, salary year and facility assignments, 2022–2026
• GPS death record for Mickey Skyles (Charles D. Hudson Transitional Center, June 24, 2025)
• GPS incident entries for Charles D. Hudson Transitional Center, April 6, 2025 — CERT team use-of-force allegations involving resident Michael Schullerman and Lt. Lonesca Carlton (no source URL supplied in the record)

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.