Turnage, Gloria ANN

Tenure Summary

Gloria Ann Turnage has held multiple roles in the Georgia Department of Corrections since 2005, beginning as a General Clerk at Columbus Transitional Center, then Counselor there, Chief Counselor at Rutledge State Prison, Behavioral Health Counselor, Deputy Warden at Rutledge, and Correctional Superintendent at Columbus Transitional Center in 2017. GPS records list her as Correctional Superintendent from 2018 through 2021 without a recorded facility, then as Correctional Superintendent at Pulaski State Prison in 2022. Since September 16, 2024, she is listed as Special Assistant to the Warden at Pulaski State Prison.

GPS records attribute five deaths to Turnage’s facility-leadership tenure, all at Pulaski State Prison during her 2022 year as Correctional Superintendent. The records list no lawsuits naming Turnage as a defendant.

What happened on their watch

Columbus Transitional Center — General Clerk (2005), Counselor (2007), Correctional Superintendent (2017). GPS records attribute no deaths to Turnage during these Columbus postings.

Rutledge State Prison — Chief Counselor (2014), Deputy Warden (2016). GPS records attribute no deaths to Turnage during these Rutledge postings. Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporting describes later allegations at Rutledge, including a lawsuit over Curtis Mincey’s 2021 death and contraband allegations against staff, but those records post-date Turnage’s Rutledge service.

Behavioral Health/Counselor (SP) — 2015. The record lists no facility for this posting, and GPS records attribute no deaths to it.

Correctional Superintendent — 2018 through 2021, facility not recorded. GPS records do not identify a facility for these years; no deaths are attributed to Turnage for this period.

Pulaski State Prison — Correctional Superintendent (2022). GPS records attribute five deaths to Turnage’s 2022 superintendent year at Pulaski. The decedents in the attributed-death records are Margaret Ann Palmer, 55, on Jan. 21; Sharon Ann Fuquea, 56, on April 16; Tammy Lowann Baker, 54, on May 26; Monica Mae Cutts, 29, on Aug. 15; and Christina Marie Buttery, 34, on Dec. 21. All five records list cause-category code 6; ages range from 29 to 56. A GPS-tracked report dated June 30, 2022, states that gang members at Pulaski State Prison for Women were using violence to extort inmates and families; the record does not connect that report to the five attributed deaths. Separately, GPS records of a U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation event state that constitutional violations at Pulaski State Prison were documented for 2022-2023, a period overlapping Turnage’s 2022 posting; the event record does not attribute specific conduct to Turnage.

Pulaski State Prison — Special Assistant to the Warden (2024-present). GPS records attribute no deaths to Turnage in this role.

Sources

• GPS personnel and death-attribution records for Gloria Ann Turnage
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on later allegations at Rutledge State Prison
• U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation event record, as tracked by GPS, documenting Pulaski State Prison 2022-2023

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 6, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.