Inmate Death Under Investigation

Commissioner:Timothy C. Ward

Director of Public Affairs: Joan Heath

FORSYTH, Ga. – Special Agents with the Georgia Department of Corrections’ (GDC) Office of Professional Standards are investigating the death of an inmate at Coffee Correctional Facility in Nicholls, Ga., as a suspected homicide.

Agents have reason to believe offender Kendall Cromer (GDC#1000175901) died as a result of injuries sustained during an altercation involving another inmate on November 30.  Medical personnel responded and life saving measures were performed.  Cromer was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased by a hospital physician, at approximately 1:17 a.m.  The GDC is conducting an investigation into the death, as standard procedure.

Cromer was sentenced to serve twenty years in 2008, in Dekalb County for Armed Robbery.

About the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC)

The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) has one of the largest prison systems in the U.S. and is responsible for supervising approximately 50,000 state prisoners. It is the largest law enforcement agency in the state with approximately 10,500 employees. For more information on the GDC, call 478-992-5247 or visit http://www.gdc.ga.gov