Holloway, Remona Annette

Tenure Summary

Remona Annette Holloway spent roughly a decade in Georgia Department of Corrections administrative and human-resources posts before moving into facility leadership. Records list her as a clerk in 2015, an HR technician in 2016, an HR technician supervisor from 2017 through 2020, an HR analyst 2 in 2021–2022, and an HR generalist supervisor in 2023–2024, with assignments recorded at Phillips State Prison, Northwest Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Center and Augusta State Medical Prison. She entered leadership as Deputy Warden of Administration at Augusta State Medical Prison on October 1, 2024, and records also list a deputy warden posting at Phillips State Prison beginning January 1, 2025.

Seventy deaths are attributed to the facilities she led during those tenures: 63 at Augusta State Medical Prison and 7 at Phillips State Prison, per GPS's death registry figures. No lawsuit naming her as a defendant appears in these records, and no news report in them names her directly. The records do carry unresolved allegations about deaths at Augusta reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and tied to a Department of Justice investigation.

What happened on their watch

Augusta State Medical Prison — Deputy Warden of Administration, October 1, 2024, to January 15, 2026. Sixty-three deaths are attributed to this facility during her tenure as its deputy warden of administration. The AJC reported on January 21, 2025, that the DOJ investigation found Rodarick Lee Hayes had been attacked on multiple occasions before his death, suggesting a failure to protect him; a separate AJC report the same day states a correctional officer is accused of aiding in the attack that led to Hayes's stabbing death. The AJC also reported that Thomas Henry Giles was left for hours in his smoke-filled cell while officers evacuated nearby inmates, dying of smoke inhalation in a death the GBI ruled 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. Each of these is an allegation attributed to the AJC/DOJ, recorded against her tenure in that role.

Named deaths at Augusta State Medical Prison, per GPS's registry: Anthony J Walker died January 15, 2026, cause listed as Natural/Medical, age 74; Ronnie Williams died December 31, 2025, Natural/Medical, age 65; Alfonzo Foster died December 30, 2025, Natural/Medical, age 74; Gary Thomas Shaughnessy died December 21, 2025, Natural/Medical, age 71; Eugene Cornelius Edmond died December 1, 2025, Natural/Medical, age 65; Kenneth Craig McCowan died November 24, 2025, cause Unknown/Pending, age 69; Kimmeth Devon Harden died November 20, 2025, Natural/Medical, age 55; Jeffery Jackson died October 29, 2025, Natural/Medical, age 63; Lloyd Lewis died October 19, 2025, Natural/Medical, age 62; Deonta Smith died October 10, 2025, Unknown/Pending, age 40; Johnnie Wildermuth died October 9, 2025, Unknown/Pending, age 44; Randy Clay died October 1, 2025, Natural/Medical, age 63; Trammell Lyonda Williams died September 28, 2025, Natural/Medical, age 47; Eric Deal died September 14, 2025, Natural/Medical, age 58; Treyvance Elliott Currie died August 31, 2025, Unknown/Pending, age 55; Michael Juan Campbell died August 19, 2025, Natural/Medical, age 56; Santos Sotelo died August 9, 2025, Natural/Medical, age 56; and Phillip Megginson died August 6, 2025, cause listed as Accident, age 57.

Other items recorded against her Augusta tenure: a federal court order dated November 18, 2024, in Benning v. Oliver, barring GDC from enforcing its 12-person email-contact restriction as a First Amendment violation (court records), and an April 6, 2025 entry titled "Inmate killed at Jackson State Prison during a probation violation sentence."

Phillips State Prison — deputy warden and Deputy Warden of Administration, January 1, 2025, onward. Records list her as deputy warden there from January 1 through October 31, 2025, and as Deputy Warden of Administration from November 1, 2025, with a further Deputy Warden entry dated August 27, 2026. Seven deaths are attributed to Phillips during her tenure there. An allegation recorded against her Phillips tenure, dated July 17, 2026, describes a serious 2025 stabbing in a dormitory that had previously been safe but became violent after incarcerated veterans were transferred and recreational materials were removed.

Named deaths at Phillips State Prison, per GPS's registry: Jacob Ray Nicholson died July 13, 2026, cause Unknown/Pending, age 29; Richard L Thatcher died May 3, 2026, Unknown/Pending, age 58; Rickie Lynn Rutherford died April 18, 2026, Unknown/Pending, age 41; Cornelius Burge died February 11, 2026, Natural/Medical, age 42; Rodger Scales died February 9, 2026, Natural/Medical, age 40; Willie Roseborough died January 13, 2026, Natural/Medical, age 54; and Justin Curtis Kinsey died November 8, 2025, cause listed as Accident, age 37. Court and policy records from her Phillips tenure also include a federal judge's March 17, 2026 refusal to dismiss a parole-process lawsuit involving Janice Buttrum, and a January 2026 GDC directive ending enforcement of the email-contact limit.

Sources

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — reporting on the deaths of Rodarick Lee Hayes, Thomas Henry Giles, Eddie Gosier and Jimmy Lucero at Augusta State Medical Prison, and on failures costing Georgia taxpayers millions
• U.S. Department of Justice investigation of Georgia prisons — finding that Rodarick Lee Hayes was attacked multiple times before his death
• GPS death registry — facility-level death totals and the named decedents listed above
• Federal court records — Benning v. Oliver email-contact rulings (November 18, 2024); the parole-process litigation involving Janice Buttrum (March 2026)
• Georgia Department of Corrections directive on email contacts (January 2026)

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Oct 11, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.