Wooten, Darrell

Tenure Summary

Darrell Wooten holds one documented leadership posting: Deputy Warden of Administration at Telfair State Prison, with a listed start date of July 16, 2026 and no end date recorded — a facility-deputy role rather than the top warden position. GPS's death registry attributes one death at Telfair State Prison to his tenure there, and Telfair is the only facility where deaths are attributed to him. No lawsuits naming Wooten as a defendant appear in these records.

His first months in the post overlapped with a documented stretch of violence at the facility: a July 21 altercation death described in a September event record, a September gang-related fight that injured three people and preceded a statewide lockdown, and inmate reports of a large dorm fight broken up with chemical agents. No news coverage naming Wooten directly appears in these records.

What happened on their watch

Telfair State Prison — Deputy Warden of Administration, from July 16, 2026 (no end date recorded). One death is attributed to Wooten's tenure at Telfair. Kwame Conte Mccombs died July 25, 2026, at Telfair State Prison at age 37; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending — the registry does not yet record a cause.

Records dated inside his tenure describe further violence at the same facility. An inmate report logged October 10, 2026 states that an incarcerated person in the same dorm was stabbed by a group of other incarcerated people in 2026, and that a deputy warden reviewed video footage of the incident. Two reports logged September 16 describe, per a Telegram group account, a large-scale fight between two rival groups in a dorm that continued as officers deployed chemical agents into the dorm; one incarcerated person reported being overcome by the agent while their cell door was open, and door-to-door injury checks followed. The second September 16 report alleges an altercation between rival groups that injured at least three people, at least one fatality, and lockdowns at multiple facilities. Event records dated September 18, 2026 describe a gang-related fight contained to a single dorm that injured three inmates, who were treated at local hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries and returned to the facility; a companion record notes that GDC placed all facilities under lockdown out of an abundance of caution, with Telfair and Calhoun state prisons and specific dorms at Hancock and Wilcox remaining locked down as of Friday afternoon. A September 17 inmate report relayed a Telegram-group account of a death at a Georgia state prison, a regional director reportedly visiting the facility in connection with the death, and a message warning it "may not be over at other camps."

A report logged July 17, 2026 — the day after Wooten's listed start date — relays an allegation that multiple people were killed at Telfair in 2025 during a conflict between the Bloods and Muslims that triggered a statewide prison lockdown. That account concerns a period before his tenure.

Separately, per Yahoo.com, Telfair inmate Kendall Alfonzo Stevens is accused of making a bomb threat against an Atkinson County school in an effort to disrupt school operations. According to 13WMAZ, the GBI traced the school bomb threat to a Telfair inmate serving a life sentence; the GBI investigated and, per an event record dated August 26, 2026, will turn the case file to the Alapaha District Attorney's Office for review once complete.

Sources

• GPS death registry — cause and date for Kwame Conte Mccombs, Telfair State Prison, July 25, 2026
• GPS case submissions (inmate reports logged July 17, September 16, September 17 and October 10, 2026, Telfair State Prison), including accounts circulated in a Telegram group
• GPS event records dated August 25–26 and September 18, 2026 — GBI bomb-threat investigation, Telfair gang fight, inmate death in a July 21 altercation, and the GDC statewide lockdown
• Yahoo.com — report on the bomb-threat accusation against inmate Kendall Alfonzo Stevens
• 13WMAZ — reporting that the GBI traced the school bomb threat to a Telfair inmate

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 25, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.