Wiley, Flemister E

Tenure Summary

Flemister E. Wiley appears in GPS records as a public safety trainer from 2015 through 2023, first as PUBLIC SAFETY TRN (AL) in 2015 and then as Public Safety, Trainer 3 from 2016 through 2023, with annual salary rising from $60,361.86 to $75,060.12. On November 22, 2023, Wiley is listed as Deputy Warden at the Special Management Unit; the 2024 and 2025 salary records continue that role at $84,062.18 and $88,626.84.

GPS records attribute five deaths to Wiley’s facility-leader tenure, all at the Special Management Unit. The earlier trainer positions carry no facility-death attribution in the provided data. The structured record lists one litigation matter, Gumm v. Jacobs, which terminated in 2019, before Wiley’s listed SMU deputy warden posting.

What happened on their watch

Special Management Unit — Deputy Warden (November 22, 2023 onward per GPS records)

During Wiley’s listed tenure as Deputy Warden at the Special Management Unit, GPS records list five deaths at the facility. Each death record lists Wiley’s role at the time as DEPUTY WARDEN:

• Ricardo Castavio Daughtry, 41, June 10, 2024
• Emilio Christopher Canales, 40, October 22, 2024
• Lashon Boddie, 30, September 2, 2025
• Michael Ogletree, 33, October 31, 2025
• Antony Ramon Penick, 32, May 30, 2026

All five entries carry cause category 6 in the GPS data; the provided fields do not state an underlying cause of death.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported allegations specifically concerning Daughtry: according to the AJC, GDC failed to check on him for nearly seven hours before his body was discovered, despite a policy requiring checks every 30 minutes, and prison records showed Daughtry attending “table time,” recreation, and the book cart after he had already been pronounced dead. Those are allegations in the AJC’s reporting, not established findings against Wiley.

Broader SMU-related findings and allegations also overlap Wiley’s deputy warden tenure. In April 2024, U.S. District Judge Marc T. Treadwell issued a contempt order citing the GDC for false statements or misrepresentations about compliance with the 2019 SMU settlement, according to GPS intel records. The AJC reported that GDC falsified and backdated prisoner review forms to make required review hearings appear timely held. The U.S. Department of Justice issued a report in October calling conditions in Georgia prisons inhumane and describing GDC’s obstruction of federal investigators, per GPS intel records. In March 2024, the GDC stopped including preliminary cause of death in monthly mortality reports, a change the AJC reported as obscuring homicide and suicide counts.

The facility was also the subject of AJC reporting on Arthur Lee Cofield Jr., who used a contraband cellphone to steal $11 million; Cofield was sentenced in January 2024. The AJC alleged GDC learned of financial crimes as early as 2018 and that Cofield repeatedly obtained contraband cellphones even in the state’s top-security prison. That underlying conduct predates Wiley’s listed SMU posting, though the sentencing and reporting overlap the early months of the deputy warden tenure.

Litigation

• Gumm v. Jacobs, No. 5:15-cv-00041, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia; filed February 12, 2015; terminated May 7, 2019; no outcome amount recorded. GPS intel records describe the underlying case as a challenge by Timothy Gumm to conditions in the Special Management Unit, filed in 2015 and settled in 2019. The filing predates Wiley’s listed SMU deputy warden tenure.

Sources

• GPS personnel, facility-tenure, death, litigation, and intel records for Wiley, Flemister E.
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — “Georgia prison officials have repeatedly presented false or misleading information to federal investigators, state lawmakers and a federal judge”
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — “He stole $11 million. Now he’ll spend 11 years in federal prison”
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — editorials citing DOJ findings and GDC noncompliance with the SMU settlement
• U.S. Department of Justice report on Georgia prisons, as summarized in GPS intel records
• U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia — Gumm v. Jacobs, 5:15-cv-00041; CourtListener docket

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Aug 30, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.