{"id":98399,"date":"2026-01-13T08:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98399\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T08:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:56:25","slug":"3-dead-14-injured-in-massive-georgia-prison-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98399\/","title":{"rendered":"3 dead, 14 injured in massive Georgia prison brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three inmates were reportedly killed and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/07\/us-news\/stabber-of-tourist-mom-in-macys-said-she-wanted-to-go-to-prison-rather-than-back-to-mental-hospital\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than a dozen injured<\/a> in a massive brawl at a Georgia prison.<\/p>\n<p>The fight broke out around 1:25 p.m. Sunday at Washington State Prison in Davisboro, and quickly plunged the 1,500-inmate facility into lockdown for over a day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.41nbc.com\/update-washington-state-prison-disturbance-inmates-identified\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">41 NBC reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Little is known yet about what sparked the chaos, but it is believed to have started on an outdoor walkway inside the prison grounds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38166212\" width=\"734\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/warning-sign-posted-outside-washington-118796599.jpg\" alt=\"A warning sign for Washington State Prison in Davisboro, Georgia, in front of the prison building.\" class=\"wp-image-38166212\" style=\"width:734px;height:auto;aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\"  \/>Washington State Prison in Georgia was locked down for over a day after the massive brawl left three dead and 14 injured. AP<\/p>\n<p>Deputies from the Washington County Sheriff\u2019s Office had to be called in to help wrestle control of the situation, which included deploying non-lethal weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The prison was finally secured around 3 p.m., but not before three inmates were killed and 13 others hospitalized for injuries. A prison guard was also hurt and taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmod Hatcher, who was serving 20 years for aggravated assault; Jimmy Trammel, who was doing 20 years for first-degree burglary; and Teddy Jackson, who was serving 10 years for aggravated assault, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/04\/us-news\/inside-notorious-nyc-jail-where-maduro-wife-are-being-held\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were all killed in the brawl,<\/a> according to 41 NBC.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear how they died. The guard, meanwhile, suffered non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s deputies left the prison by 6 p.m., and it remained on lockdown into Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia\u2019s prisons have been under the microscope since 66 inmates died of suspected homicides in 2024 \u2014 a staggering number which was on its way to being outpaced last year when 42 were killed in the first half of 2025, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/12\/us\/georgia-prison-fight-inmates-killed.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions inside the Peach State\u2019s penitentiaries are often \u201chorrific and inhumane,\u201d a Department of Justice probe found in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Chronic<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/01\/us-news\/life-after-lockup-star-accused-of-assaulting-her-husband-at-vacation-rental-cant-nothing-break-me\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> understaffing was one<\/a> of the driving forces behind the surge in violence, with gangs in some lockups taking control of entire wings and running criminal operations that extended beyond prison walls, the report found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three inmates were reportedly killed and more than a dozen injured in a massive brawl at a Georgia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1015,5348,238,9,11,10,4719,34953,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-98399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-deaths","9":"tag-georgia","10":"tag-murders","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-prisons","15":"tag-riots","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}