Holloway, Remona Annette

Tenure Summary

Remona Annette Holloway spent roughly a decade in Georgia Department of Corrections human-resources ranks before moving into facility leadership. Per GDC personnel and salary records, she entered as a clerk in 2015, moved through HR technician and HR supervisor posts, served as an HR analyst 2 assigned to Phillips State Prison (2021) and then the Northwest Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Center (2022), and returned to a facility assignment as HR generalist supervisor at Augusta State Medical Prison in 2024. On October 1, 2024, she was named Deputy Warden of Administration at Augusta; GDC records list her at Phillips State Prison as a Deputy Warden from January 1 to October 31, 2025, and as Deputy Warden of Administration there from November 1, 2025, with a further one-day Deputy Warden entry dated August 27, 2026.

Across those facility-leadership tenures, the GPS mortality dataset attributes 70 deaths to the facilities involved — 63 at Augusta State Medical Prison and 7 at Phillips State Prison. No lawsuit naming Holloway as a defendant appears in the records reviewed, and no news report in the dataset names her directly.

What happened on their watch

Augusta State Medical Prison — Deputy Warden of Administration, Oct. 1, 2024 – Jan. 15, 2026. Sixty-three deaths are attributed to Augusta during this posting. The sampled records skew heavily toward older decedents, consistent with a medical prison: ages run from 38 (Mario Marill Cannon, March 23, 2025) to 86 (Joe Henry Davis, May 2, 2025), and include William Kige Anderson (62, Oct. 1, 2024), Dewey Henderson (81, Oct. 25, 2024), Franklin Karl Eastman (83, Oct. 9, 2024), Stephen Prochaska (70, Jan. 21, 2025) and Joe Henry Davis. Cause codes in the dataset are numeric and unlabeled; most sampled Augusta entries carry the code shown as category 1, with others including categories 4 and 6.

Six AJC-sourced allegations dated Jan. 21, 2025 are indexed to Augusta while Holloway held the Deputy Warden of Administration role. Per the AJC, the DOJ investigation of Georgia prisons found that Rodarick Lee Hayes "had been attacked on multiple occasions before his death," and a correctional officer is accused of aiding the attack that led to Hayes's stabbing death. The AJC also reported that Thomas Henry Giles was left for hours in a smoke-filled cell while officers evacuated nearby inmates, with the GBI ruling his death by smoke inhalation a homicide; that guards moved a prisoner with a violent history of strangulation into Eddie Gosier's cell, leading to Gosier's murder hours later; and that Jimmy Lucero was placed in solitary confinement without required medical checks, fell into a catatonic state and starved. These are allegations reported by the AJC, not adjudicated findings against Holloway.

Other facility-indexed events during this posting include the Nov. 18, 2024 rulings in Benning v. Oliver — in which Judge Self granted summary judgment holding GDC's 12-person email-contact restriction a First Amendment violation and ordered enforcement stopped — and a Jan. 1, 2026 GDC directive to wardens to cease enforcing the email-contact limit. Benning named Commissioner Tyrone Oliver, not Holloway. A separate April 6, 2025 incident entry titled "Inmate killed at Jackson State Prison during probation violation sentence" is indexed to Augusta in the dataset.

Phillips State Prison — Deputy Warden (Jan. 1 – Oct. 31, 2025) and Deputy Warden of Administration (from Nov. 1, 2025). Seven deaths are attributed to Phillips during Holloway's leadership tenure there. Sampled decedents include Justin Curtis Kinsey (37, Nov. 8, 2025), Rodger Scales (40, Feb. 9, 2026), Cornelius Burge (42, Feb. 11, 2026), Rickie Lynn Rutherford (41, April 18, 2026), Richard L. Thatcher (58, May 3, 2026) and Jacob Ray Nicholson (29, July 13, 2026) — a markedly younger group than Augusta's. Two Phillips-indexed events concern statewide juvenile-lifer parole litigation rather than facility conduct: a March 17, 2026 federal ruling denying dismissal of a parole-process lawsuit that found Georgia's system "may be unconstitutional sham," and a March 25, 2026 parole board decision denying release to Janice Buttrum for a fifth time without the documentation the Supreme Court requires.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — prison-homicide reporting and DOJ findings at Augusta State Medical Prison, including the Hayes, Giles, Gosier and Lucero allegations (Jan. 21, 2025)
• U.S. Department of Justice — investigation of Georgia prisons, as reported by the AJC
• Georgia Department of Corrections — personnel, salary and facility-assignment records; 2026 directive on email-contact enforcement
• Court records — Benning v. Oliver (N.D. Ga., summary judgment order, Nov. 18, 2024) and the juvenile-lifer parole process litigation (March 2026 rulings)
• Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles — Buttrum release decision, March 25, 2026
• Georgia Prisoners' Speak mortality dataset — facility death counts and decedent records

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 23, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.