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This is a summary of reporting published by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on June 22, 2024. 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.
In an image captured from a social media post, Shane Tassi is with two other young men, all wearing white shirts and bright orange pants marked as Georgia Department of Corrections uniforms. Tassi’s in the middle, brazenly displaying a homemade shank and making a gang gesture that ties him to the Bloods in Milledgeville.
When local law enforcement spotted the photo and sent it to District Attorney T. Wright Barksdale III, he was outraged. Just days earlier, Barksdale had prosecuted 17-year-old Tassi in a trial where he was found guilty of murdering a high school student in Baldwin County.
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