Tillman, Alexander

Tenure Summary

Alexander Tillman's recorded GDC career begins in 2005 as a Behavioral Health Counselor at Emanuel Probation Detention Center, with additional counselor entries there in 2007 and 2011. From 2015 to 2020 he held non-facility behavioral-health, employment-services, and social-services staff posts. He returned to facility work at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison (GDCP) in Jackson as Behavioral Health Counselor 2 (2021), Social Services Program Consultant 3 (2022), and CSM Correctional Unit Manager (2023), before being promoted to Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment at GDCP on July 16, 2024 — a posting he held until August 31, 2025. GPS records also list a single-date CSM Unit Manager entry at the Special Management Unit (Nov. 22, 2023) and a single-date Education Program Specialist 3 entry at Central State Prison (Aug. 27, 2026). His status is listed as active.

Per GPS records, 15 deaths are attributed to Tillman's leadership tenures, all at GDCP (`deaths_by_facility`: Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, 15). `deaths_by_facility` lists no other facility. Every row in the capped GPS mortality sample carries the role `Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment` — the 15 sample rows match the attributed total.

What happened on their watch

Emanuel Probation Detention Center (2005, 2007, 2011) — Behavioral Health Counselor (non-supervisory tier). No deaths attributed.

Statewide staff roles (2015–2020; no facility listed). No deaths attributed.

GDCP — BH Counselor 2 (2021), Social Services Program Consultant 3 (2022), CSM Correctional Unit Manager (2023). No deaths in GPS records are attributed to these years or to these titles. GPB reported on Dec. 27, 2023 — during his unit-manager year — that six people had died in Georgia state prisons in a single month, citing severe staff shortages that let gang members effectively run facilities and families receiving no information about deaths.

Special Management Unit — CSM Correctional Unit Manager, single-date record (Nov. 22, 2023). No deaths attributed. AJC reporting cited in GPS records describes SMU-wide allegations — falsified and backdated review forms, and that inmate Ricardo Daughtry went nearly seven hours without a check before his body was found despite a 30-minute policy. The records do not establish Tillman's role in those matters.

CSM CORRECTIONAL UNIT MANAGER (Jan. 1–Jul. 15, 2024; no facility listed). No deaths attributed.

GDCP — Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment (Jul. 16, 2024–Aug. 31, 2025): 15 deaths attributed. Named decedents in the sample, ages 27 to 76: Rodriquez Garrett (30, Sept. 6, 2024), Albert Stinson (76), Joshua Holliday (43, Oct. 21, 2024), Stephen Hester (41), Thomas Williams (62), Willie Ponder (47), John Tidd (36), William Rhodes (38), Michael West (46), David Robbs (37), Mark Smith (53), Jacob Wilcox (27), Woodrow Hodges (68), Daniel Callahan (72), Christopher Crook (49, Aug. 5, 2025). Cause codes in the sample span categories 1–6. GPS records carry documented causes for three: Garrett — manner suicide, cause hanging, per a GBI Medical Examiner production obtained by GPS open-records request; Holliday — GBI autopsy (R000893-072626) finding ligature hanging, manner suicide per the ME, toxicology positive for methamphetamine, with the autopsy described in GPS notes as neither confirming nor excluding a witness account of an assault; and Rhodes, whose note reads "Homocide" and which GPS provenance notes reclassified as a prisoner-report entry rather than official GDC data. GPS incident logs also record an April 6, 2025 fatal chest stabbing at the Jackson facility, witnessed by multiple inmates with a reported 30-minute delay in officer response, and multiple entries describing Mark Smith's death as neglect involving advanced Parkinson's disease and missed medical-transfer requests; neither is attributed to a published source in the record. GPS records also carry overcrowding figures for GDCP (4,540 people in a facility built for 800), contraband-phone and staff-misconduct allegations at the facility, and AJC/DOJ material describing DOJ findings that Georgia's prisons were inhumane — material GPS logs against the same period.

Central State Prison — Education Program Specialist 3, single-date record (Aug. 27, 2026). No deaths attributed to this posting.

Litigation

• Miller v. Holt, No. 5:25-cv-00356 (M.D. Ga.), filed Aug. 25, 2025 — status pending; no outcome or settlement amount recorded. GPS records list Tillman as a defendant. Filed during his GDCP deputy-warden posting.

Sources

• GPS personnel, mortality, and incident-intelligence records (personnel file: tillman-alexander)
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia prison homicides list; prison-conditions and false-statements investigations series
• Georgia Public Broadcasting — Dec. 27, 2023 report on prison deaths, staffing, and family notification
• GBI Medical Examiner production obtained via GPS open-records request (Garrett, Holliday causes)
• Butts County E-911 open-records production — CAD report and dispatch recordings, Oct. 21, 2024
• WGXA — drone contraband sentencing; 13WMAZ — Central State Prison incidents; WRDW and The Georgia Virtue — Humphreys clemency coverage
• CourtListener docket, Miller v. Holt (5:25-cv-00356)

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 13, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.