Yancey, Jody LEE

Tenure Summary

Jody Lee Yancey's documented Georgia Department of Corrections career runs from 2007 to the present, moving through deputy-level posts at two facilities before taking the top job at one of them. He served as Assistant Chief of Security at McRae Women's Facility in 2007, Assistant Warden at Coffee Correctional Facility in 2022, Deputy Warden at McRae in 2023, Deputy Warden at Coffee in 2024, and then returned to McRae as "Warden 3" from Jan. 1, 2025, stepping into the full Warden title on Jan. 16, 2025 — a position he still holds, per GDC personnel records compiled by Georgia Prisoners' Speak.

Across those tenures, 15 in-custody deaths are attributed to his watch: 10 at Coffee Correctional Facility and 5 at McRae Women's Facility. No lawsuit naming him as a defendant appears in the record, no news coverage naming him directly was located, and the only logged intel event tied to his facilities during his tenures is a single homicide recorded while he was Assistant Warden at Coffee.

What happened on their watch

Assistant Chief of Security, McRae Women's Facility — 2007. A non-leadership post; the record documents only the title and dates.

Assistant Warden, Coffee Correctional Facility — 2022. Coffee accounts for 10 of the 15 deaths attributed to Yancey's tenures, and seven of the decedents in the record carry the role label Assistant Warden during this year: Hendricks Riley Gunn, 42; Maurice Bernard White, 48; Robbie Lee Collins, 45; Enrique Alejandro Lopez, 37; Aydin M. Rashidov, 27; Charles J. Edwards, 75; and Karl Eugene Pundt, 78. Gunn's death is the one logged as an intel event — a homicide, per the intel log, caused by blunt force injuries to the head and neck, dated Jan. 1, 2022 (the death list dates it Jan. 2). Nearly all of these deaths are classified in the records under a single cause category (6).

Deputy Warden, McRae Women's Facility — 2023. The record documents the title and dates. The McRae deaths attributed during Yancey's tenures carry a later role label.

Deputy Warden, Coffee Correctional Facility — 2024. Three decedents in the record carry this role label: Jeffery B. Russell, 60 (Jan. 8, 2024); Robert Adams, 52 (Feb. 8, 2024); and William Eric Green, 61 (May 24, 2024). All three are classified under the same cause category (6) that dominates the Coffee deaths.

Warden 3 (Jan. 1–15, 2025) and Warden (from Jan. 16, 2025), McRae Women's Facility. All five McRae deaths attributed to Yancey's tenures carry the role label Warden: Jadia Corine Rozier, 23 (July 20, 2025, cause category 3); Beverly Suzannne Sipple, 59 (March 16, 2026); Kristal Lyn Layne, 55 (May 10, 2026); Shannon Michelle Rush, 43 (May 16, 2026); and Chasity King, 26 (May 18, 2026). Four of the five fell within roughly nine weeks in spring 2026, three of them inside an eight-day window in May. Four of the five are classified under cause category 6; Rozier's carries category 3. No intel reports, intel events, lawsuits, or news items naming Yancey appear in the record for this period.

Sources

• Georgia Prisoners' Speak intel event log — homicide of Hendricks Riley Gunn at Coffee Correctional Facility, Jan. 1, 2022 (while Yancey was Assistant Warden).
• Georgia Department of Corrections personnel records (positions, facilities, and salary years 2007–2025), compiled by Georgia Prisoners' Speak.
• GDC in-custody death records for Coffee Correctional Facility and McRae Women's Facility, compiled by Georgia Prisoners' Speak — 15 deaths attributed to Yancey's facility-deputy and facility-lead tenures (10 Coffee, 5 McRae).
• Defendant/litigation index search — no lawsuits naming Yancey returned.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 23, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.