Whitten, Anna Marie

Tenure Summary

Anna Marie Whitten's recorded GDC career began in behavioral-health services, holding Behavioral Health Counselor 1, 2, and 3 positions in annual increments from 2019 through 2023, per state salary records. None of those roles carried facility-leadership accountability, and the position records for those years list no assigned facility. In 2024 she moved into facility leadership as a Deputy Warden at Walker State Prison, a post she held across the 2024 and 2025 salary years (Walker State Prison, facility ID 107).

Across her leadership tenure, zero deaths are attributed to her watch — the total for her leadership tier is 0, with no per-facility death totals recorded. No lawsuits naming her as a defendant appear in the records. The only accountability-relevant entries tied to her leadership tenure are two incident records dated May 17, 2025, when she held the Deputy Warden role.

What happened on their watch

Walker State Prison — Deputy Warden, 2024–2025. No deaths are attributed to Whitten during her time as Deputy Warden. Two incident entries fall inside that tenure, both dated May 17, 2025, both listing her `role_at_time` as Deputy Warden, and both naming Jason Palmer as the person affected. The first records that Palmer was held in segregation at Telfair State Prison and denied adequate food and phone access for months, and that he reported severe hunger alongside what the entry describes as rampant violence with inadequate staff oversight. The second entry describes inhumane conditions at Telfair State Prison — segregation, food denial, a communication blockade, weapon contraband, and staff absence.

Two points of caution belong with those entries. They are recorded against facility ID 107, which the position table identifies as Walker State Prison, while the event titles themselves name Telfair State Prison; the records as provided do not resolve that discrepancy, so the facility attribution should be treated as unresolved rather than asserted. And these are allegations of conditions, not adjudicated findings: no source URL is attached to either entry, and no court disposition is recorded. They document claims made about conditions on her watch, not established facts about her conduct or responsibility.

No other intel reports, no news mentions naming Whitten, and no facility-level death records are present for her tenure. Her non-leadership years (2019–2023) carry no facility assignment in the records, and the absence of incident entries for those years reflects only that this dataset does not cover non-leadership periods — it is not evidence that no incidents occurred.

Sources

• Georgia Department of Corrections position and salary records — Whitten's Behavioral Health Counselor 1–3 roles (2019–2023) and Deputy Warden, Walker State Prison (2024–2025)
• GPS intelligence event records — two May 17, 2025 incident entries naming Jason Palmer, recorded against facility ID 107 with `role_at_time` listed as Deputy Warden (no source URL attached; facility named as Telfair State Prison in the event titles)

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.