Yancey, Jody LEE

Tenure Summary

Jody Lee Yancey's career in the Georgia Department of Corrections runs from a 2007 post as Assistant Chief of Security at McRae Women's Facility, through assistant and deputy warden roles at Coffee Correctional Facility and McRae Women's Facility, to the warden's office at McRae, where he has served since January 16, 2025. GPS attributes 15 deaths to his facility-leadership tenures: 10 at Coffee Correctional Facility and 5 at McRae Women's Facility. Ten of those deaths occurred during his Coffee tenures (2022 Assistant Warden, 2024 Deputy Warden); the five McRae deaths all occurred while he held the Warden role.

No lawsuits naming Yancey as a defendant appear in GPS records, and no news reports in the records name him directly. His status is listed as active.

What happened on their watch

Assistant Chief of Security, McRae Women's Facility (2007). A non-leadership post; no accountability-tier deaths are attributed to this period.

Assistant Warden, Coffee Correctional Facility (2022). The deaths recorded at Coffee during this posting include:

• Maurice Bernard White died January 17, 2022, at Coffee Correctional Facility; the registry lists the cause as Natural/Medical, age 48.
• Robbie Lee Collins died January 18, 2022, at Coffee Correctional Facility; the registry lists the cause as Suicide, age 45.
• Enrique Alejandro Lopez died March 30, 2022, at Coffee Correctional Facility; the registry lists the cause as Accident, age 37.
• Aydin M Rashidov died August 18, 2022, at Coffee Correctional Facility; GPS's registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 27.
• Charles J Edwards died September 26, 2022, at Coffee Correctional Facility; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 75.
• Karl Eugene Pundt died November 25, 2022, at Coffee Correctional Facility; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 78.
• Hendricks Riley Gunn died January 2, 2022, at Coffee Correctional Facility; the registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 42. A GPS intel event on the homicide records that Gunn died from blunt force injuries to the head and neck, and lists Yancey's role on that date as Assistant Warden.

The recorded ages in this posting ranged from 27 to 78, and causes split among Natural/Medical, Suicide, Accident, Homicide and Unknown/Pending. Because a cause is shown as Unknown/Pending, GPS does not yet know it; no cause is inferred here.

Deputy Warden, McRae Women's Facility (2023). A facility-deputy post; no deaths are attributed to this period in the records.

Deputy Warden, Coffee Correctional Facility (2024). During this posting:

• Jeffery B Russell died January 8, 2024, at Coffee Correctional Facility; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 60.
• Robert Adams died February 8, 2024, at Coffee Correctional Facility; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 52.
• William Eric Green died May 24, 2024, at Coffee Correctional Facility; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 61.

Warden, McRae Women's Facility (Warden 3, January 1–15, 2025; Warden from January 16, 2025). All five McRae deaths attributed to his leadership tenures fall in this period:

• Jadia Corine Rozier died July 20, 2025, at McRae Women's Facility; the registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 23.
• Beverly Suzannne Sipple died March 16, 2026, at McRae Women's Facility; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 59.
• Kristal Lyn Layne died May 10, 2026, at McRae Women's Facility; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 55.
• Shannon Michelle Rush died May 16, 2026, at McRae Women's Facility; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 43.
• Chasity King died May 18, 2026, at McRae Women's Facility; the cause is Unknown/Pending, age 26.

Four of those five — Sipple, Layne, Rush and King — died within roughly two months of one another in 2026, with causes recorded at this point as Unknown/Pending; the records do not state a connection between them.

Sources

• Georgia Prisoners' Speak death registry — deaths during Yancey's leadership tenures at Coffee Correctional Facility (2022, 2024) and McRae Women's Facility (2025–2026)
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak intel events log — homicide of Hendricks Riley Gunn at Coffee Correctional Facility, with Yancey's role listed as Assistant Warden
• No court records, DOJ documents or news articles naming Yancey appear in these records

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 11, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.