Part 2 | Terrible Tommy: The life & Crimes of Thomas Silverstein

Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jim completes his look into what many consider the most dangerous inmate ever incarcerated in the United States prison system, Thomas “Terrible Tommy” Silverstein.
Labeled a brutal killer and Aryan Brotherhood leader, Silverstein spent the last 36 years of his life in solitary confinement—the longest such stint in federal Bureau of Prisons history—under “no human contact” conditions at facilities like USP Marion and ADX Florence in Colorado.

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0:00.0	I walk a straight line
0:17.3	shackled chain
0:20.6	oh glarsome gertie
0:24.6	He's calling my name
0:27.6	There is no mercy
0:30.6	And it's been a tentery
0:33.6	Just ask the hill string guy
0:38.2	Rangled of three
0:40.7	I'm here for life
0:44.7	I'm here to die
0:47.8	Inside these walls
0:51.8	Inside the wild
0:54.7	And when the wolf cries
0:58.4	I know it's over
1:01.6	Oh, bloody Angola
1:08.1	Oh, oh, bloody angola.
1:14.9	Hey, everyone, welcome back to Bloody Angola, a podcast 142 years in the making, the complete story of America's Bloodyest Prison.
1:38.4	I'm Jim Chapman, and I am back with the second part of this terrible Tommy.
1:46.1	Thomas Silverstein story for those of you that joined me last week, I told you kind of
1:52.9	an entire synnosis of Thomas Silverstein's life and then his life inside of prison.
2:05.9	And we got to the end of that story. And I mentioned that he had actually filed a lawsuit against the United States Bureau of Prisons on being held in
2:12.5	solitary confinement for many, many years. And he kind of told his whole story inside a prison in that filing.
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