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Tommy Williams was an inmate in Shawshank State Prison that befriended Andy Dufresne. He made his only appearance in Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and its film adaptation.
He was sent to prison for thievery, and found out from Elwood Blatch that Blatch had committed two murders and a banker took the blame for it. Eventually, Williams was moved to Shawshank and quickly became friends with the inmates. One day, he approached Andy Dufresne to become literate and pass a literacy test, and they worked together over the years to achieve that goal. Williams found out why Dufresne was imprisoned and told him that Blatch was responsible for the crimes. He passed the test while Dufresne was in a solitary cell, and was called to a meeting with Samuel Norton about Dufresne’s innocence. Due to vouching that Dufresne committed no murder, Samuel Norton sent him to another prison; in the film adaptation, he is instead shot four times by Byron Hadley on Norton’s signal and framed as an attempted escapist.