relationship with was tommy holloman. these guys, they know everything. there s a lot of rats at this place. these cops know everything that goes on pretty much. we ve been hearing about tommy holloman while we were at limon. as the shock collar of the white supremacist gang. when we first encountered him, i was a little taken aback. i was expecting this mean, tough, hardcore guy. instead it was this tommy that we came to know who seemed shy, a little timid. a little withdrawn. i have a pretty good heart. my mom, she s always had foster kids. and she s worked in a group home. so, i mean, i ve always wanted to do what she did. i always wanted to help somebody. and i really think i can. during the shoot, he was brought in for questioning when another inmate accused him of execution. hey. watching lieutenant fox deal with tommy was very interesting. they had a certain rapport.
i would almost call it a professional rapport. come on in. have a seat. so, you want to give me your story? to be honest, i don t really have one. i mean, i feel like this dude is trying to get out of trouble. he knows who i am. i go under the bus every time. they seemed to know what each other s boundaries were. they talked in a very amicable way. and fox was giving tommy advice on how to stay out of trouble. if you re doing anything, quit. i m not. lay low. they have a target on you. the good thing about fox and piper, they don t ask questions they know they shouldn t. they re not going to ask me straight-out what happened and why. they re going to ask if i know anything about it. they don t push me if i say no. the extortion investigation eventually led fox and piper to conclude the inmate who made the accusation was angling for a transfer to another prison. and holloman was cleared. but holloman has had his share of trouble.
but holloman has had his share of trouble. he was originally sentenced for 30 years for assault and attempted robbery, after he stabbed a man during a street fight. i was charged with first-degree assault which i thought really wasn t that serious. i thought, oh, it s not murder then maybe he wasn t too bad. it turns out that i stabbed him in his lung and he bled out, like, twice. had to go through a couple surgeries. and i got the attempted robbery because i was going through his pockets. that s where i found the knife. it was his knife. and took off. and that was it. really. during his early years at limon, holloman gained a reputation for violence, as well. when you have a 30-year sentence you have to go in with a mindset that you re probably never going to get out or if you do you re going to be an old man. so, you don t really care about anything. that s what you re supposed to do in prison. supposed to do heroin and fight, i mean, who gives a crap? he was like a tony sopr
i m kind of a momma s boy. on the other hand, i probably wouldn t want to cross him. i m a pretty big guy. and nobody s going to call me out. i m part of a pretty intimidating group. when we re on the yard, we re 20, 30 deep. pretty big white boys. nobody really challenges that. so, it wasn t as hard as i thought it would be. holloman made it to the top of his prison gang. but then the unexpected happened. he caught a break in his case. a reclassification hearing on his 30-year sentence was influenced by an unlikely source. so, the day before my hearing this guy that i stabbed wrote a letter to the judge saying that i deserved a second chance. and that i was given a long time and it s not fair because of my mistake that my family had to suffer and lose a son, you know? you know, it was pretty amazing. i mean, i had a lot of people, they spoke at the hearing. the judge cut holloman s sentence in half, to 15 years,
one of the gang members the officers cultivated a relationship with was tommy holloman. these guys, they know everything. there s a lot of rats at this place. these cops know everything that goes on pretty much. we ve been hearing about tommy holloman while we were at limon. as the shock collar of the white supremacist gang. when we first encountered him, i was a little taken aback. i was expecting this mean, tough, hardcore guy. instead it was this tommy that we came to know who seemed shy, a little timid. a little withdrawn. i have a pretty good heart. my mom, she s always had foster kids. and she s worked in a group home. so, i mean, i ve always wanted to do what she did. i always wanted to help somebody. and i really think i can. during the shoot, he was brought in for questioning when another inmate accused him of execution. hey. watching lieutenant fox deal with tommy was very interesting.