Wilson, Jennifer

Tenure Summary

Jennifer Wilson’s career with the Georgia Department of Corrections began in 2015 as a behavioral health counselor and progressed to a supervisory role, with no facility affiliation recorded in GPS personnel data for those years. In 2024 she assumed her first leadership position, deputy warden at Wilcox State Prison, a role she holds through the current data. GPS records attribute 26 deaths to her facility‑leader tenure, all at Wilcox, a tally that includes multiple homicides, deaths in restrictive housing, and a series of fatalities still listed as undetermined. During that same span the prison has drawn public allegations, press scrutiny, and a U.S. Department of Justice finding that Georgia’s prisons are gang‑run and plagued by violence and sexual assault.

What happened on their watch

Wilson’s only facility‑leader posting is as deputy warden of Wilcox State Prison, beginning January 1, 2024. In that posting, GPS records document 26 deaths, spanning February 2024 through March 2026. The earliest attributed fatality is Kevin Joseph Degraft (40, Feb. 12, 2024, cause category 6). By summer 2024, two homicides were recorded: Arthur Jerome Williams (55) died on July 19 in an incident involving two inmates, and on Aug. 27 Mariol Juante Rawls (41) was stabbed to death with a homemade weapon in an attack that incident reports say involved nine offenders. An Atlanta Journal‑Constitution investigation confirmed Rawls’s death as a homicide with multiple participants.

During 2025 the pace of deaths quickened. GPS records list at least four more homicides: Daylyne Collin (30, April 20, noted “Homocide (G2)”), Dominique Cornelius Cole (37, June 8, “Homocide (Hole)”), Ian Rashod Henry (29, June 22, “Likely Homocide (Hole)”), and Marcus Walker (20, Jan. 10, 2026, cause category 3, reported on social media). The records for Cole and Henry locate the killings inside the prison’s segregation unit, the “hole.” In a separate note accompanying the death of Jeremy Cole Watson (37, March 9, 2026), a user report described him as “yet another offender found dead in the hole (J building).”

Many of the remaining deaths carry cause category 6, meaning the manner of death was undetermined or awaiting autopsy, including Keith Wingo (Jan. 16, 2025), whose entry notes “Undetermined/Awaiting Autopsy Report,” as well as a string of fatalities between October 2024 and December 2025.

While Wilson held the deputy warden role, the facility was the target of several public allegations. A Facebook post (May 2026) claimed that prison leadership locked down inmate movement so that senior staff could hold on‑clock social gatherings, and that basic hygiene supplies such as toothbrushes, socks, and linens had gone undistributed for about a year despite budgeted funds. The AJC reported that Dominique Cole’s family alleged guards were tied to gangs and that the warden promised a follow‑up call that never came and failed to return Cole’s personal belongings. In 2025 a gang fight at Wilcox sent nine prisoners to the hospital with stab wounds. The wider context includes a 2024 DOJ report describing Georgia’s prisons as gang‑run and “riddled with regular violence and sexual assault,” and the AJC noted that hundreds of GDC employees had been arrested for smuggling contraband.

Litigation

• Willis v. Government Employees Insurance Company (5:23‑cv‑00430, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, filed Oct. 26, 2023, terminated Jan. 23, 2026). Wilson is named as a defendant; the docket indicates the case was closed without a recorded monetary outcome.
• Daker v. Ward (7:20‑cv‑00113, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, filed June 11, 2020, terminated Nov. 3, 2021). Wilson appears as a defendant in this earlier litigation, which also concluded without a listed payout.

Sources

• GPS intelligence records — personnel file, deaths‑during‑tenure list, facility‑attributed death totals, intel reports, and event logs for Wilcox State Prison
• Atlanta Journal‑Constitution — “Georgia prison homicides outpacing last year” (2025) and homicide investigation data for Mariol Rawls and Arthur Williams
• U.S. Department of Justice — 2024 report on gang‑run Georgia prisons
• Facebook (public post) — May 2026 allegations regarding staff gatherings and supply lapses at Wilcox
• CourtListener — dockets for Willis v. Gov’t Employees Ins. Co. and Daker v. Ward

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on May 31, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.