Todd, Curtis J

Tenure Summary

Curtis J. Todd's career in the Georgia Department of Corrections began in 2013 as a correctional officer at Smith Transitional Center, where he remained through 2018, rising from officer to Correctional Officer 2. He transferred to Rogers State Prison as a correctional sergeant in 2019, returned to Smith Transitional Center as a sergeant in 2020, and was promoted to correctional lieutenant there in 2021. He entered facility-deputy and facility-lead tiers in 2022 as Correctional Assistant Superintendent at Emanuel Probation Detention Center, held an assistant superintendent posting in 2023, and became Correctional Superintendent at Emanuel PDC in 2024. In January 2025 he served as Correctional Superintendent at Smith State Prison, then moved to Special Assistant to the Warden there from February 1, 2025. He became Warden at Dodge State Prison on January 16, 2026, with a further Warden 1 personnel record dated August 27, 2026.

Across his leadership tenures, one death is attributed to his watch: Warren Peacock, 70, who died at Dodge State Prison on April 28, 2026, while Todd held the Warden role. No lawsuits naming Todd as a defendant appear in the records.

What happened on their watch

Emanuel Probation Detention Center — Correctional Assistant Superintendent (2022): No deaths are attributed to this posting and the records carry no facility intel items for it.

Assistant Superintendent (2023): A 2023 payroll record lists the title without a facility; a separate personnel entry dated November 22, 2023 places him as Correctional Assistant Superintendent at Smith Transitional Center. No deaths are attributed to these postings and no intel items are logged against them.

Emanuel Probation Detention Center — Correctional Superintendent (2024): No deaths are attributed to this posting and no intel reports or events are logged against it.

Smith State Prison — Correctional Superintendent (January 1–31, 2025): Seven Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports and two logged events fall inside these four weeks, with Todd recorded as Superintendent at the time of each. Per the AJC, two-thirds of correctional officer positions at Smith State Prison were unfilled, leaving 53 officers at a facility designed for 160. The AJC also reported that inmate Nathan Weekes allegedly ordered a hit on a correctional officer that resulted in the mistaken-identity killing of 88-year-old Bobby Kicklighter; that a gun was smuggled into the prison by undisclosed means; that Desmond Hill reportedly called his mother the day before his death to say his cellmate had threatened to kill him; that Anthony Joseph Zino III's body was badly decomposed and had likely been dead for days; and that a prisoner was tied up, beaten, waterboarded and sexually assaulted by his cellmate. A lawsuit described by the AJC alleges that the four prisoners who attacked Hiwatha Abdulcah Hakeem Jr. had a history of violence and that officials failed to provide timely medical care afterward. A logged event dated January 10, 2025 records the shooting death of food service employee Aureon Shavea Grace at the prison by an inmate who then turned the gun on himself; the event description places the shooting in June. GPS's attributed tally records no deaths at Smith State Prison during Todd's leadership tenures.

Smith State Prison — Special Assistant to the Warden (from February 1, 2025): This posting is not designated a leadership tier in the records, nor are intel items carried for it; only the role and dates are documented here.

Dodge State Prison — Warden (from January 16, 2026; Warden 1 record dated August 27, 2026): One death is attributed to this tenure. Warren Peacock, 70, died at Dodge State Prison on April 28, 2026, with Todd recorded as Warden at the time. The death record carries a coded cause category and no public narrative.

Litigation

• No lawsuits listing Todd as a defendant appear in the records.
• The only litigation event logged at a facility during his leadership is a suit filed over the death of Hiwatha Abdulcah Hakeem Jr., dated January 21, 2025, during his Smith State Prison superintendent tenure. Per the AJC, it alleges the four prisoners who attacked Hakeem had a history of violence and that prison officials failed to provide timely, adequate medical care after the assault. The records do not name Todd as a party to that suit, and no court or disposition is recorded.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — "Lawmakers eye a remake of the Georgia prison system" (Jan 24, 2025): Smith State Prison understaffing and the Weekes/Kicklighter allegations
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — "GA lawmakers and governor propose $600 million to fix state prisons" (Jan 24, 2025): smuggled gun at Smith State Prison
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — "Ga prison homicides: a list of those killed in Georgia's prison system" (Jan 21, 2025): Desmond Hill, Anthony Joseph Zino III, Hiwatha Abdulcah Hakeem Jr.
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — "Georgia expected to fight feds over state prison conditions" (Jan 21, 2025): reported assault and waterboarding of a prisoner at Smith State Prison
• GPS personnel and event records — Dodge State Prison death of Warren Peacock (April 28, 2026); death of Aureon Shavea Grace; payroll and position history for Todd

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.