Yancey, Jody LEE

Tenure Summary

Jody Lee Yancey's record with the Georgia Department of Corrections runs from a 2007 post as Assistant Chief of Security at McRae Women's Facility to the warden's office at the same prison. Between those postings the record lists Assistant Warden at Coffee Correctional Facility (2022), Deputy Warden at McRae Women's Facility (2023), Deputy Warden at Coffee Correctional Facility (2024), Warden 3 at McRae from January 1 to January 15, 2025, and Warden at McRae from January 16, 2025, with no end date listed — the post the record treats as ongoing.

Across those leadership tenures, 15 deaths are attributed to Yancey's watch: 10 at Coffee Correctional Facility and 5 at McRae Women's Facility, per GPS's death registry. No lawsuit naming Yancey as a defendant appears in the records, and no news report naming him appears there either.

What happened on their watch

McRae Women's Facility — Assistant Chief of Security, 2007. The records place Yancey in this non-leadership security post at McRae in 2007.

Coffee Correctional Facility — Assistant Warden, 2022. Seven deaths attributed to this posting appear in the registry. The first was logged as a homicide: an event record describes Hendricks Riley Gunn's death from blunt force injuries to the head and neck.

• Hendricks Riley Gunn died January 2, 2022, at Coffee Correctional Facility; the registry lists the cause as Homicide, age 42.
• 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; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 27.
• Charles J Edwards died September 26, 2022, at Coffee Correctional Facility; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 75.
• Karl Eugene Pundt died November 25, 2022, at Coffee Correctional Facility; the registry lists the cause as Unknown/Pending, age 78.

McRae Women's Facility — Deputy Warden, 2023. The records list Yancey as Deputy Warden at McRae through 2023.

Coffee Correctional Facility — Deputy Warden, 2024. Three further deaths at Coffee fall in this posting, all with cause listed as Unknown/Pending.

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

McRae Women's Facility — Warden 3 (January 1–15, 2025) and Warden (from January 16, 2025). The five McRae deaths attributed to Yancey's tenures there are dated inside this warden posting. One is recorded as Natural/Medical; the remaining four are listed as Unknown/Pending, meaning the registry does not yet establish a cause.

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

Three of those deaths — Layne, Rush and King — fall within a nine-day span in May 2026 at a facility whose warden post the records list Yancey as holding.

Sources

• GPS death registry — date, facility, age and listed cause for each of the 15 decedents named above (Coffee Correctional Facility: 10; McRae Women's Facility: 5)
• GPS event record — homicide of Hendricks Riley Gunn at Coffee Correctional Facility, described as blunt force injuries to the head and neck
• GDC personnel/payroll records as reflected in the position history for Yancey (titles, facilities, and 2022–2025 date ranges cited above)

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Nov 8, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.