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Wilson, Jennifer
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Profile written August 23, 2026
This profile reflects positional accountability — this individual held the leadership roles shown during the dates shown, during which the listed deaths or lawsuits occurred. Inclusion does not constitute a legal finding of personal culpability for any specific incident.
Tenure Summary
Jennifer Wilson entered the Georgia Department of Corrections in 2015 as a behavioral health counselor and held staff-tier counseling roles — Behavioral Hlth Counselor 3, then Behavioral Hlth Counselor Spv — through 2023. In 2024 she moved into facility leadership as Deputy Warden at Wilcox State Prison; records list that role through 2025, with a salary of $62,263.64 in 2024 and $68,462.88 in 2025. The death records in the dataset continue into 2026 under the same deputy warden title.GPS records attribute 27 deaths to Wilson’s Wilcox State Prison leadership tenure. No lawsuits in the provided records name Wilson as a defendant.
What happened on their watch
Wilcox State Prison — Deputy Warden (2024–2026 death records). According to GPS records, the 27 deaths attributed to the facility during Wilson’s deputy warden tenure include homicide, suicide, accidental drug toxicity, natural causes, and still-pending classifications, per Wilcox County Coroner Janice B. Brown case records.Homicide records include Arthur Williams (July 2024; blunt force trauma to head and neck, with two inmates involved per AJC incident data); Mariol Rawls (Aug. 2024; sharp force neck trauma from stab wounds; AJC reported nine offenders involved and a homemade weapon, and a GPS log says at least eight men were charged with murder); Rodney Whatley (Oct. 2024; blunt force head trauma in an altercation); Daylyne Collins (April 2025; multiple sharp force trauma); Dominique Cole (June 2025; blunt force injuries and strangulation); and Marcus Walker (Jan. 2026; manual strangulation). In the Cole record, family allegations reported by the AJC include that guards were tied to gangs and that the prison failed to return follow-up calls and belongings.
Coroner records classify several deaths as suicide by hanging, including Darrius Zanders (May 2025) and Deon Vanzyme (Jan. 2026). In the Zanders record, GPS notes that GDC investigated its own death scene and that GBI autopsy certification took 11 months; the GBI autopsy ruled hanging and suicide. The record for Ian Henry (June 2025) carries a source conflict: the county coroner certified suicide by hanging, while GPS retains a homicide classification based on a witness report describing a wound.
Coroner records attribute several deaths to accidental toxic effects of methamphetamine or the synthetic cannabinoid MDMB-4en-PINACA, including Kevin Degraft (Feb. 2024), James Hogan (Dec. 2024), Collis Welch (Nov. 2025), and Stacy Bullard (Nov. 2025). Pending-classification records include Raymond Moody (March 2025; narrative of hanging in a solitary cell), Earnest Sims, Jeremy Watson, and Gary Felver (2026). Deaths classified as natural include Jody Jones, George Morales, Rodney Hurley, Harold Hester, Roy Gates, Thomas Schwartz, Willie Mosley, and Keith Wingo.
Broader documented context overlapping Wilson’s tenure includes the DOJ’s 2024 report on gang-run Georgia prisons, cited by the AJC, which described regular violence and sexual assault; an AJC report that 42 deaths were investigated as possible homicides in the first half of 2025; and GPS facility logs of a Wilcox gang fight that sent nine inmates to the hospital with stab wounds. A May 2026 Facebook post, treated by GPS as an allegation, claims lockdowns occur during staff gatherings and that basic inmate supply issuance lapsed for about a year. State settlement records show earlier Wilcox payouts, including $750,000 for the 2017 James Wheeler hanging, but those predate Wilson’s deputy warden posting; none name her as a defendant.
Sources
- Wilcox County Coroner Janice B. Brown — summary case reports, Wilcox State Prison, 2024–2026
- GBI Medical Examiner / DOFS autopsy records, including Darrius Zanders case ME-25-40336
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia prison homicides investigation and September 2025 reporting
- GA DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger (Open Records)
- U.S. Department of Justice — 2024 report on Georgia prisons, cited via AJC
- GPS death and intel records, including witness/user submissions and a May 2026 Facebook public post
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| DEPUTY WARDEN | WILCOX STATE PRISON | 2024-01-01 → present |
| Deputy Warden | WILCOX STATE PRISON | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR SPV | 2020-01-01 → 2023-12-31 | |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 3 | 2016-01-01 → 2019-12-31 | |
| BEH HEALTH/COUNSELOR (WL) | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Lawsuits as defendant
| Case # | Court | Filed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:20-cv-00113 | GAMD | 2020-06-11 | terminated |
Deaths attributed during tenure
27 people died at facilities under Wilson, Jennifer's leadership.
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