Thurman, Terrion

Tenure Summary

Terrion Thurman's GDC record begins in 2012 as a correctional officer at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, continues through a 2017 posting as a CSM Correctional Officer 2 at the Special Management Unit, business-support work in 2018–2019, and a return to Georgia Diagnostic in 2020 as a behavioral health counselor — a title he carried, with a 2023-11-22 Georgia Diagnostic record among the entries, through August 2025. On September 1, 2025 he entered facility leadership as Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, a post the records show running to August 31, 2026; from July 16, 2026 he has also held Deputy Warden of Diagnostics at the same facility, the position listed as current.

GPS attributes 17 deaths to his leadership tenure, every one of them at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison. No lawsuit in the records names Thurman as a defendant. During his tenure the facility's recorded intelligence includes an Atlanta Journal-Constitution account of an officer selling information to a death row prisoner, the federal drone-contraband sentencings of three inmates, the homicide of Mark Rutledge and the resulting Office of Professional Standards investigation, and the litigation surrounding the scheduled execution of Stacey Humphreys.

What happened on their watch

Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison — September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026. Thirteen of the 17 deaths fall inside this posting. Charles Ramen Coppeak died November 19, 2025, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, aged 26; GPS's registry lists the cause as Overdose. Tabaya Marshall Gray died November 27, 2025, at the same prison, aged 52, cause Unknown/Pending — GPS does not yet know the cause. Juan Jose Rodriquez died December 10, 2025, aged 53; the registry lists Overdose. Trevone Lavelle Lovett died January 10, 2026, aged 33, cause Natural/Medical. Novice H Langston died January 12, 2026, aged 60, Natural/Medical. Christopher Lee died January 31, 2026, aged 19, Natural/Medical. James Thompson died February 6, 2026, aged 76, Unknown/Pending. Terry Junie Marshall died March 2, 2026, aged 59, Natural/Medical. Phillip Dwayne Rogers died June 14, 2026, aged 66, Unknown/Pending. Mark Rutledge died June 26, 2026, aged 72; the registry lists Homicide, and GDC's Office of Professional Standards led the investigation, with the body sent to a GBI crime lab to determine cause, per the recorded events. Leonel Cedillo died June 27, 2026, aged 42, Unknown/Pending. James Nelson Hall died July 2, 2026, aged 67, Unknown/Pending. Shaun Corey Farrell died July 13, 2026, aged 48, Unknown/Pending.

Recorded during this same posting: a March 5, 2026 federal civil rights lawsuit by Ronald Allen against the Georgia Department of Corrections and other defendants over medical neglect resulting in amputation of his left hand and permanent damage to his right — the records do not name Thurman as a defendant. An October 24, 2025 entry in GPS's event records describes systemic failure in death reporting and investigation, including deaths deleted from an inmate database, no autopsy ordered and missing witness statements. On January 28, 2026 the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Officer Vera Jackson admitted receiving thousands of dollars to supply death row inmate Eric Perkinson with information on upcoming shakedowns and staff.

Deputy Warden of Diagnostics, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison — July 16, 2026 to present. Four deaths fall inside this posting. Walter Brown died August 3, 2026, aged 66, cause Unknown/Pending. Tommy L Tucker died August 6, 2026, aged 77, Unknown/Pending. Michael Wayne Forker died August 8, 2026, aged 74, Unknown/Pending. Thomas Harold Broach died August 22, 2026, aged 81, Unknown/Pending.

This posting also covers the Humphreys execution sequence: clemency was denied September 15, 2026, a day before the scheduled September 16 lethal-injection execution; his attorneys filed a notice of appeal that same day seeking Georgia Supreme Court review of a September 10 Cobb County Superior Court ruling denying a new trial, per the recorded events. Earlier litigation over Board of Pardons and Paroles conflicts — reported by WRDW and The Georgia Virtue — is also recorded here. On September 11, 2026, WGXA-reported sentencings in the drone-contraband conspiracy produced terms for Deivon Waller (240 months, $2,000 fine), Tristahn Ash (92 months) and Asa James Ward (56 months). On September 17, 2026 a Facebook video by the Human and Civil Rights Coalition of Georgia carried former officer Kerri-Ann Crumbley's account of hiring and retention problems and of a hospital post where things she could have done for an incarcerated patient were refused to her as against policy — a witness claim, not a finding.

Sources

• GPS death registry — 17 deaths at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison during Thurman's leadership tenure
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — January 28, 2026 report on officer Vera Jackson and death row inmate Eric Perkinson
• WGXA — September 11, 2026 report on the drone-contraband sentencings
• WRDW and The Georgia Virtue — September 2026 reports on Pardons and Paroles conflicts in the Humphreys case
• Facebook — Human and Civil Rights Coalition of Georgia — September 17, 2026 witness video by Kerri-Ann Crumbley
• GDC Office of Professional Standards / GBI — investigation into the June 2026 death of Mark Rutledge
• Federal court records — Allen v. Georgia Department of Corrections civil rights complaint, filed March 5, 2026
• Georgia Supreme Court and Cobb County Superior Court records, and Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles proceedings, in the Humphreys matter

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 18, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.