Holloway, Remona Annette

Tenure Summary

What happened on their watch

Augusta State Medical Prison — Deputy Warden of Administration (Oct 1, 2024 – Jan 15, 2026)
During Holloway’s 15-month tenure at this medical-prison facility, GPS records link 63 inmate deaths to the site. The decedents were predominantly older men, many in their 60s or 70s—such as William Kige Anderson (62), Dewey Henderson (81), and Jerry Kyle Harper (84)—whose deaths were classified as natural/medical. However, the death list also documents two unnatural fatalities: Stephen Prochaska died by suicide via hanging in January 2025, and Kendius Hill died after a homicide, with the notes indicating “Anoxic Brain Injury and Septic Shock.” Allegations collected by GPS from Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporting describe a guard moving a prisoner with a history of strangulation into the cell of Eddie Gosier, leading to Gosier’s murder; a separate AJC report details how Thomas Henry Giles was left in his smoke-filled cell for hours while officers evacuated nearby inmates, resulting in his death—a case the state settled for $5 million just three months after Holloway assumed the deputy warden role. Broader systemic findings also touched Augusta during this period: a federal judge held GDC Commissioner Tyrone Oliver in contempt in early 2026 for defying court orders on inmate email contact, and Augusta was one of the facilities where policy non-compliance was litigated.

Phillips State Prison — Deputy Warden / Deputy Warden of Administration (Jan 1, 2025 – present)
While simultaneously holding leadership at Augusta, Holloway served as Deputy Warden at Phillips State Prison, where 19 deaths are attributed to her watch. The decedents spanned a wide age range and included at least one confirmed homicide: Jody Stokes died of “Homicide due to Strangulation” in January 2025. Other deaths during her tenure included Cornelius Burge (42), Rodger Scales (40), and Terry Nichols (42), all logged with natural/medical cause categories by the department. Although the most widely reported violent incidents at Phillips—such as the 2022 gang-related stabbing of Quafabian Melik McBride, which officers allegedly facilitated by moving him to the lockdown unit, and the fatal assault on Dave Stone in the mental-health ward—predate Holloway’s appointment, they are part of a documented pattern of systemic violence that the DOJ’s 2024 investigation identified as ongoing in Georgia prisons, a context that persisted through her tenure. During her time at Phillips, the facility also saw legal challenges over parole procedures and a multi‑facility gang war that had started earlier but continued to shape the volatile environment.

Litigation

Sources

• GPS Intelligence Records — personnel history, death counts, and individual decedent data for Remona Annette Holloway.
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — “Ga prison homicides: a list of those killed in Georgia’s prison system” (allegations regarding Augusta and Phillips facilities).
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — “Prison system failures cost Georgia taxpayers millions” (details on the Thomas Henry Giles settlement and Jimmy Lucero death).
• U.S. Department of Justice — 2024 investigation findings describing violence, sexual assaults, and gang control inside GDC prisons.
• Federal court records (Benning v. Oliver) — contempt proceedings and orders addressing GDC non‑compliance with email‑contact restrictions, 2024–2026.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on May 31, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.