Turnage, Gloria ANN

Tenure Summary

Gloria Ann Turnage's documented Georgia Department of Corrections career spans roughly two decades. She entered in 2005 as a General Clerk at Columbus Transitional Center and worked as a Counselor there in 2007. By 2014 she was Chief Counselor (programs) at Rutledge State Prison, followed by a 2015 behavioral-health counselor post and a 2016 turn as Deputy Warden at Rutledge. In 2017 she became Correctional Superintendent at Columbus Transitional Center, and she held superintendent posts continuously through 2022; the records list no facility for the 2018–2021 superintendent years and list Pulaski State Prison for 2022. Since September 16, 2024 she has served as Special Assistant to the Warden at Pulaski State Prison.

GPS attributes five deaths in custody to her leadership tenure, all of them at Pulaski State Prison during her 2022 superintendent posting and all of them women. Its facility-by-facility tally assigns no deaths to any of her other leadership postings. No lawsuits naming her as a defendant and no news reports naming her directly appear in the records supplied.

What happened on their watch

Rutledge State Prison — Chief Counselor (programs), 2014; behavioral-health counselor, 2015; Deputy Warden, 2016. None of the five deaths attributed to Turnage's leadership tenure are tied to Rutledge in the records. Her 2014 and 2015 roles were specialty and staff positions, not facility-lead tier.

Columbus Transitional Center — Correctional Superintendent, 2017. This was her first facility-lead posting. The records attribute no deaths to it, and no intel events at the facility are logged for that year.

Correctional Superintendent, 2018–2021. She continued in the superintendent title for four years, but the records do not name the facility for these postings. No deaths in the supplied attribution data are assigned to this period, and no facility-level incident records are available for it.

Pulaski State Prison — Correctional Superintendent, 2022. All five deaths attributed to her tenure occurred here, at the women's prison, across 2022: Margaret Ann Palmer, 55, on January 21; Sharon Ann Fuquea, 56, on April 16; Tammy Lowann Baker, 54, on May 26; Monica Mae Cutts, 29, on August 15; and Christina Marie Buttery, 34, on December 21. All five are recorded under the same cause category in the data, and none carries a public narrative, so the records do not explain the circumstances of any of the deaths beyond the date, age, and category. One intel entry is logged during this posting: a report dated June 30, 2022, titled "Gang members using violence to extort inmates and families at Pulaski State Prison for Women." The entry carries no description and no source URL and is logged under a different name (Pamela Dixon), not Turnage's.

Pulaski State Prison — Special Assistant to the Warden, from September 16, 2024. This role is not classified as a facility-lead tier in the records; no deaths are attributed to it.

Sources

• Georgia Prisoners' Speak personnel and positions dataset — Turnage's GDC postings and titles, 2005–2024
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak death-in-custody records — the five 2022 deaths at Pulaski State Prison
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak intel event log — June 30, 2022 report at Pulaski State Prison
• No court records, DOJ findings, audits, or news reports naming Turnage appear in the records supplied.

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.