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

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of “Bloody Angola Podcast”, Jim explores 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.

Chapters
03:29 The early life of Thomas Silverstein.
07:18 First incarceration.
11:37 Rise of the Aryan Brotherhood.
13:36 The first murder and its consequences.
14:36 Transfer to Marion and a new beginning.
21:21 The killing of Officer Clutts.
22:25 Life means life.
26:08 Transfer to ADX Florence.
29:25 Silverstein's lawsuit.

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0:00.0	I walk a straight line
0:17.3	shackle and change
0:20.6	oh glarsome gertie is calling my name there is no mercy in this penitentiary
0:33.6	just asked the hill string guy
0:38.2	Rangle 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 wide And when the wolf cries these walls 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.
1:14.6	Hey, everyone, welcome back to Bloody Angola, a podcast 142 years in the making the complete story of America's bloodiest present.
1:39.1	I'm Jim Chapman.
1:40.6	And this should be the first episode that I have recorded since the new year.
1:46.1	So happy New Year to all of you out there listening to Bloody Angola.
1:50.7	I hope you got some good goals set for 2026.
1:54.5	I'm looking forward to bringing you the best in prison podcasting, telling you the notorious stories of Louisiana State Penitentiary
2:05.0	at Angola.
2:05.6	And we're going to add some other prisons into the mix as we go along.
2:10.5	And that's sort of what we're doing today.
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