supposed to do heroin and fight, i mean, who gives a crap? he was like a tony soprano of sorts. just like tony soprano he was a personable and likeable guy. 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?
accusation was angling for a transfer to another prison. and holloman was cleared. 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.
the part of it is the rapport we build over the years with them. they trust us and in turn we trust them somewhat. 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
to cost you 16 tokens. and if you have a problem with that, then kick rocks, you re not going to get it. exchanging vending machine tokens for fresh prison clothes is one thing. but two other inmates have been accused of a far more serious hustle. tommy holloman, identified by prison officials as the leader of a white gang called 211, and jason wright, have both been accused by convicted sex offender david laudone of several serious offenses. laudone says he was beaten and forced to store hooch, homemade alcohol. laudone also says he s been extorted, forced to buy $25 a month in canteen items for holloman and wright. but lieutenant fox feels laudone s story doesn t add up. i went back and pulled your canteen records. and he spent like $96 since the first of december on canteens. holloman spent $292 and wright spent $266 on canteen, so that story is not washing with me. wright did admit that he talked with laudone and laudone agreed to hold the hooch as long as he got to drink some.
reported that two other inmates were extorting him and forcing him to violate prison rules. one of the men is tommy holloman, the leader of a prison gang known as 211. the other, jason wright. but now only one of them remains at limon. we went on lockdown. and they shook tommy down and his cellie. it was a long shakedown, too. it was probably over an hour. maybe even longer than that. we had information that he was involved in drugs. we sent staff over to shake his cell down. and they found what tested positive for meth. they took him to the hole that night. two days later he was gone. they moved him. we just figured it was better to get holloman out of the cell and out of the picture because his name just keeps coming up. every time something seems to be