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This is a summary of reporting published by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on September 28, 2026. It was not written by Georgia Prisoners’ Speak. GPS tracks coverage of Georgia’s prison system so the record stays in one place. The full article is on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s own site.
A Florida sheriff arrested a woman accused of participating in a scam network through Georgia prisons and called for officials to put a stop to the scammers’ operations within the prison system.
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood, in a video posted to social media, said investigators there linked an Atlanta woman and three others to $15,000 taken from a woman near Daytona Beach, Florida.
Annie Ashley of Atlanta has been charged with grand theft, Volusia sheriff’s officials said.
She is one of roughly two dozen people arrested in the past year by Volusia County in the “huge scam” the Florida sheriff says is being run out of two Georgia prisons: Calhoun State Prison and Wheeler Correctional Institution.
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