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Holloway, Remona Annette
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Profile written June 7, 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
Remona Annette Holloway ascended through a succession of human-resources roles in the Georgia Department of Corrections beginning in 2015, including postings at Phillips State Prison and the Northwest Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Center, before assuming facility leadership as a deputy warden in late 2024. She served as Deputy Warden of Administration at Augusta State Medical Prison from October 2024 until mid‑January 2026, and simultaneously held a deputy warden position at Phillips State Prison from January 2025 onward. During her combined deputy‑warden tenures, GPS records attribute 83 deaths to the two facilities: 63 at Augusta and 20 at Phillips. No lawsuits name Holloway as a defendant, though multimillion‑dollar settlements over prior in‑custody deaths at both prisons were finalized while she held command, and the facilities drew continuing scrutiny from federal courts, the Department of Justice, and an investigative series by the Atlanta Journal‑Constitution.What happened on their watch
Augusta State Medical Prison (Deputy Warden of Administration, Oct. 2024 – Jan. 2026) Across the 63 deaths GPS attributes to Holloway’s Augusta tenure, the sample of incidents shows a dense rhythm of fatalities—often several per month—with cause‑categories that include homicides, suicides, and terminal medical conditions. Among them, Stephen Prochaska died by hanging in January 2025, and Kendius Hill’s death was noted as a homicide with anoxic brain injury and septic shock. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation ruled earlier Augusta deaths (outside Holloway’s term) as homicides, yet two major settlements closed during her watch: the state paid $5 million to the family of Thomas Henry Giles, who perished from smoke inhalation after officers evacuated nearby cells but left him in his smoke‑filled room, and $550,000 for Jimmy Lucero, who starved after being placed in solitary confinement without mental‑health checks. Federal court activity intensified too; in February 2026—just after Holloway moved on from Augusta—a judge held GDC Commissioner Tyrone Oliver in contempt for defying an appellate order on inmate email access, and the AJC’s two‑year investigation disclosed rampant corruption, record homicides, and official suppression of death data. GPS intelligence relays describe ongoing violence at the facility into early 2026, including a stabbing in D‑building, a severe beating, and four incarcerated people arriving with jaws wired shut.Phillips State Prison (Deputy Warden / Deputy Warden of Administration, Jan. 2025 – present)
The 20 deaths recorded during Holloway’s time at Phillips include natural‑cause fatalities—advancing dementia, HIV complications, myocardial infarctions—as well as violent ones. Jody Stokes was killed by strangulation in January 2025, a death categorized as a homicide. In September 2025, the state agreed to a $700,000 settlement for the 2017 suicide of Demitri Carter, a case filed years earlier that closed under Holloway’s watch. A lawsuit challenging Georgia’s parole process for juvenile lifers, and a separate incident in which a prisoner was killed at Jackson State Prison, fueled broader calls for reform. The record of deaths at Phillips remained steady through early 2026, with individuals like Rickie Lynn Rutherford, Cornelius Burge, and Rodger Scales dying in February and April of that year.
Sources
- GPS records — death‑incident data, facility‑attributed counts, and personnel‑position timelines
- Atlanta Journal‑Constitution — 2026 contempt‑hearing coverage, homicide list, and investigation into GDC corruption, understaffing, and record homicides
- U.S. Department of Justice — 2024 report on horrific violence, sexual assaults, and gang‑run prisons within the GDC
- Federal court documents — Benning v. Oliver litigation, contempt order, and summary‑judgment ruling on email‑contact restrictions
- GDC Office of Professional Standards — standard death investigations at Augusta State Medical Prison (2026)
Positions Held
| Title | Facility | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Deputy Warden of Administration | PHILLIPS STATE PRISON | 2025-11-01 → present |
| DEPUTY WARDEN | PHILLIPS STATE PRISON | 2025-01-01 → present |
| Deputy Warden of Administration | AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON | 2024-10-01 → 2026-01-15 |
| HR GENERALIST SPV | AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON | 2024-01-01 → 2024-09-30 |
| HR GENERALIST SPV | 2023-01-01 → 2023-12-31 | |
| HR ANALYST 2 | NORTHWEST RESIDENTIAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTER | 2022-01-01 → 2022-12-31 |
| HR ANALYST 2 | PHILLIPS STATE PRISON | 2021-01-01 → 2021-12-31 |
| HR TECH SPV | 2020-01-01 → 2020-12-31 | |
| HR TECH SPV | PHILLIPS STATE PRISON | 2019-01-01 → 2019-12-31 |
| HR TECH SPV | 2017-01-01 → 2018-12-31 | |
| HR TECH 1 | 2016-01-01 → 2016-12-31 | |
| CLERK (WL) | 2015-01-01 → 2015-12-31 |
Deaths attributed during tenure
83 people died at facilities under Holloway, Remona Annette's leadership.
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