Tillman, Alexander

Tenure Summary

Alexander Tillman's GDC career began in clinical and program roles: Behavioral Health Counselor at Emanuel Probation Detention Center (2005, 2007, 2011), then staff positions in behavioral health counseling, employment services, and social services consulting from 2015 through 2022, including time at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison (GDCP) in 2021–2022. He crossed into custody leadership as CSM Correctional Unit Manager at GDCP in 2023, and on July 16, 2024, became Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment at GDCP — a post he held until August 31, 2025.

Per GPS's records, 15 deaths are attributed to his leadership tenures, all of them at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison. During his deputy warden period the site also drew a set of published allegations — infrastructure collapse, inmate-on-inmate attacks, and a death described in event records as neglect — and he is named as a defendant in a federal lawsuit filed in August 2025 that remains pending.

What happened on their watch

CSM Correctional Unit Manager, GDCP — 2023, and a one-day entry at Special Management Unit on Nov. 22, 2023. No deaths in the record are attributed to the unit-manager posting; GPS attributes no fatalities to that role. A separate 2024 unit-manager entry (Jan. 1–July 15, 2024) carries no facility designation. All 15 attributed deaths fall within the deputy warden period that followed.

Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment, GDCP — July 16, 2024 to Aug. 31, 2025. GPS attributes 15 deaths at GDCP to this tenure, the most recent recorded being Christopher Wayne Crook, 49, on Aug. 5, 2025, and the earliest in the listed sample being Rodriquez Demorris Garrett, 30, on Sept. 6, 2024. Decedents named in the records include Daniel Claude Callahan (72), Woodrow Wilson Hodges (68), Jacob Scott Wilcox (27), Mark Smith (53), David Octavious Robbs (37), Michael Scott West (46), William Rhodes (38), John Irvin Tidd Jr. (36), Willie Henry Ponder (47), Thomas Williams Jr. (62), Stephen Allen Hester (41), Joshua Mark Holliday (43), and Albert Stinson (76). Ages span 27 to 76. Three deaths were recorded within three consecutive days in November 2024 — Hester on Nov. 6, Williams on Nov. 7, Ponder on Nov. 8.

GPS event records describe the death of Mark Smith, 53, in June 2025 as resulting from neglect: entries state he had advanced Parkinson's disease, was denied a transfer to the medical unit, missed medication, and was found dead in his cell after hours without security rounds. A separate incident entry dated April 6, 2025 describes a prisoner stabbed fatally in the chest with a 30-minute delay before an officer responded; another entry bearing the same date references an inmate killed at Jackson State Prison and a witness coerced to silence, though it is indexed to GDCP.

Intel reports logged during this tenure, all sourced to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, include: an allegation (March 31, 2025) that almost every part of GDCP had been vandalized by prisoners amid widespread infrastructure failures; a report (Jan. 21, 2025) that Brandon Trace Burrell was assaulted by another inmate while under the effects of methamphetamine and suffered numerous stab wounds; a report that same day that Charles Lee Broady Jr., despite requesting protection from threatening gang members, was moved to a location where six gang members attacked him with razor blades; and a Sept. 5, 2024 report noting that at the time of David "Toro" Zavala's guilty plea, officers had seized 35 cellphones from him.

Records list one further position after his deputy warden tenure: an Education Program Specialist 3 entry at Central State Prison dated Aug. 27, 2026.

Litigation

• Miller v. Holt, Case No. 5:25-cv-00356, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia (GAMD). Filed Aug. 25, 2025. Status: pending; no disposition or settlement amount recorded. Tillman is listed among the defendants. The available docket record does not state the claims.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — assault and gang-attack allegations, infrastructure findings, and contraband reporting at GDCP during the 2024–2025 deputy warden tenure
• GPS event records — death entries including the June 2025 death of Mark Smith and the April 6, 2025 stabbing incident at GDCP
• Court records via CourtListener — docket for Miller v. Holt, 5:25-cv-00356 (M.D. Ga., filed Aug. 25, 2025)

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.