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Reynolds, Shavari
On GDC's 2025 payroll
Profile written September 23, 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 documented career with the Georgia Department of Corrections runs from 2013 to the present, moving from custody and community supervision into behavioral health and then into facility leadership. State position and salary records show Reynolds as a Correctional Officer at Burruss Correctional Training Center (2013, 2015) and as a CSM Correctional Officer 2 there (2016–2017), before a shift to community supervision — Community Supervision Officer 1 in 2017 and Officer 2 in 2018–2019. From 2020 through 2024, the records show a behavioral health track: Behavioral Health Counselor 1 (2020), Counselor 2 at the Special Management Unit (2021), and Counselor 3 (2022–2024), with SMU listed as the facility again in 2023 and 2024.
Reynolds entered leadership at SMU in 2025 as CSM Correctional Unit Manager, then became Deputy Warden of Security at the Special Management Unit effective April 16, 2026. A separate, single-day "Deputy Warden" entry at SMU is dated August 27, 2026. Across those leadership tenures, one death is attributed to Reynolds's watch, all of it at the Special Management Unit, per GPS's compilation of GDC records. No lawsuits naming Reynolds as a defendant, no intel reports, and no news coverage naming Reynolds appear in the records provided.
What happened on their watch
Special Management Unit — CSM Correctional Unit Manager (2025). Reynolds held the unit manager role at SMU for calendar year 2025 at a salary of $69,834.87. No death is recorded against this posting in the attributed totals; the single death on Reynolds's leadership record carries the later role of Deputy Warden of Security. No intel reports, incidents, or news items dated to this tenure appear in the records provided.
Special Management Unit — Deputy Warden of Security (from April 16, 2026). One death is attributed to Reynolds's tenure in this role. Per the GDC death record, Antony Ramon Penick, 32, died at the Special Management Unit on May 30, 2026, while Reynolds held the Deputy Warden of Security position; the record codes the cause under category 6 and carries no public narrative. The records provided include no lawsuit, no intel report, and no news account connected to this death, and no allegation of misconduct by Reynolds in connection with it.
Special Management Unit — Deputy Warden (single-day entry, August 27, 2026). A separate position record lists Reynolds as Deputy Warden at SMU for one day, August 27, 2026 — after the May 30 death. No deaths are attributed to that entry.
Sources
- Georgia Department of Corrections position and salary records (annual title and compensation filings, 2013–2026), as compiled by Georgia Prisoners' Speak.
- GDC death record for Antony Ramon Penick, Special Management Unit, May 30, 2026 (age 32; role at time: Deputy Warden of Security).
- No court filings, DOJ documents, or published news reports naming Reynolds appear in the records reviewed for this profile.
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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