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Reynolds, Shavari
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Profile written August 30, 2026
This profile reflects positional accountability — this individual held the leadership roles shown during the dates shown, during which the listed deaths or lawsuits occurred. Inclusion does not constitute a legal finding of personal culpability for any specific incident.
Tenure Summary
Shavari Reynolds’s GDC personnel records begin in 2013 with correctional officer roles at Burruss Correctional Training Center, followed by community supervision and behavioral health counselor positions. Reynolds later moved into supervisory roles at the Special Management Unit: CSM Correctional Unit Manager in 2025, Deputy Warden of Security effective April 16, 2026, and Deputy Warden on August 27, 2026. Across the leadership-tier tenures documented by GPS, one death is attributed to Reynolds, all at the Special Management Unit. GPS records list no lawsuits naming Reynolds as a defendant.The single death attributed to Reynolds’s leadership tenure occurred on May 30, 2026, when Antony Ramon Penick, 32, died at the Special Management Unit. The record lists a cause category of 6 but no narrative cause or manner of death. Broader federal court and DOJ findings overlap Reynolds’s years at SMU, though the available records do not tie those institutional findings to Reynolds personally.
What happened on their watch
Special Management Unit — behavioral health, unit manager, and deputy warden assignments
Reynolds first appears at the Special Management Unit as a Behavioral Hlth Counselor 2 in 2021, returns as Behavioral Hlth Counselor 3 in 2023–2024, then becomes CSM Correctional Unit Manager in 2025 and Deputy Warden of Security in April 2026. GPS records attribute one death to Reynolds’s SMU leadership tenure: Antony Ramon Penick, 32, died on May 30, 2026, while Reynolds held the Deputy Warden of Security role. The record provides cause category 6 and no further detail.
During Reynolds’s assignments at SMU, the facility was the subject of broad institutional scrutiny. In April 2024, U.S. District Judge Marc T. Treadwell issued a contempt order against the GDC for falsifying documents, backdating records, and failing to comply with the 2019 Special Management Unit settlement, according to court records. The DOJ’s October 2024 report called Georgia prisons inhumane, describing assaults, stabbings, rapes, and killings inside understaffed facilities. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution separately reported that the GDC obstructed federal investigators, restricted access, and hurriedly fixed buildings before visits. The AJC also alleged that GDC falsified review forms and that records showed deceased prisoner Ricardo Daughtry attending activities after his death, though that death is not among those attributed to Reynolds’s leadership tenure. None of these reports names Reynolds.
Sources
- GPS personnel records and death-attribution data for Shavari Reynolds
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on Arthur Lee Cofield Jr. and contraband cellphones at the Special Management Unit
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on false or misleading GDC statements, falsified records, and obstruction of federal investigators
- U.S. District Court records — April 2024 contempt order by Judge Marc T. Treadwell regarding the 2019 Special Management Unit settlement
- U.S. Department of Justice — October 2024 investigative report on conditions in Georgia prisons
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Warden | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | 2026-08-27 → present |
| Deputy Warden of Security | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | 2026-04-16 → present |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL UNIT MANAGER | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | 2025-01-01 → present |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 3 | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | 2024-01-01 → 2024-12-31 |
| Behavioral Hlth Counselor 3 | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | 2023-11-22 → 2023-11-22 |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 3 | 2022-01-01 → 2023-12-31 | |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 2 | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | 2021-01-01 → 2021-12-31 |
| BEHAVIORAL HLTH COUNSELOR 1 | 2020-01-01 → 2020-12-31 | |
| COMMUNITY SUPERVISION OFC 2 | BURRUSS C.T.C | 2019-01-01 → 2019-12-31 |
| COMMUNITY SUPERVISION OFC 2 | 2018-01-01 → 2018-12-31 | |
| COMMUNITY SUPERVISION OFC 1 | 2017-01-01 → 2017-12-31 | |
| CSM CORRECTIONAL OFFICER 2 | BURRUSS C.T.C | 2016-01-01 → 2017-12-31 |
| CORRECTIONS OFFICER(WL) | BURRUSS C.T.C | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
| Correctional Officer | BURRUSS C.T.C | 2013-01-01 → 2013-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
1 people died at facilities under Reynolds, Shavari's leadership.
| Date | Decedent | Age | Facility | Role at time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-30 | ANTONY RAMON PENICK | 32 | SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT | Deputy Warden of Security |
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