Whitten, Anna Marie

Tenure Summary

Anna Marie Whitten's documented Georgia Department of Corrections career began in 2019 as a Behavioral Health Counselor 1 and progressed through Counselor 2 and Counselor 3 titles into 2023. Her position records list no facility assignment for any of those years. In 2024 she moved into facility leadership as a Deputy Warden at Walker State Prison, holding that role through 2025, and on July 16, 2026 she is recorded as Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment at the same facility. Her status is active.

Records attribute no deaths to any leadership-tier tenure she has held: the total of deaths attributed to her tenures is zero, there are no per-facility death totals, and no lawsuits naming her as a defendant are recorded. No news reports naming her directly are recorded. The accountability items documented on her watch are two incident entries dated May 17, 2025, both recorded while she held the Deputy Warden role, both naming Jason Palmer.

What happened on their watch

Behavioral health counselor positions, 2019–2023. Records list Whitten as a Behavioral Health Counselor 1 in 2019, a Behavioral Health Counselor 2 in 2020, and a Behavioral Health Counselor 3 in 2021, 2022 and 2023. No facility is listed for these postings.

Deputy Warden, Walker State Prison, 2024–2025. Records attribute no deaths to this tenure. Two incident entries dated May 17, 2025 fall inside her Deputy Warden posting. Both name Jason Palmer and are recorded against facility ID 107 — the facility ID her position records identify as Walker State Prison — while the incident titles themselves reference Telfair State Prison.

The first entry describes Palmer being held in segregation at Telfair State Prison and denied adequate food and phone access for months, reporting severe hunger and rampant violence with inadequate staff oversight. The second describes inhumane conditions at Telfair State Prison, citing segregation, food denial, a communication blockade, weapon contraband and staff absence. These are accounts recorded in the incident entries; the records do not state whether they were reported by Palmer, by an outside source, or otherwise, and no source URL is attached. They are allegations, not findings.

Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment, Walker State Prison, from July 16, 2026. Records show this appointment with no end date and no salary figure for 2026. No deaths are attributed to this tenure or to any other leadership tenure she has held.

Sources

• Georgia Department of Corrections personnel and salary records — position history, titles and facility assignments for Anna Marie Whitten, 2019–2026
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak incident entries — two records dated May 17, 2025 concerning Jason Palmer, recorded under facility ID 107, both noting Whitten's role at the time as Deputy Warden

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 11, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.