

Life's not a word. It's a sentence.
You're inside now.
Oz is set deep inside the Oswald Maximum Security Prison, in an experimental unit known as Emerald City. Em City focuses on prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. There's one set of rules from the outside looking in, and another once you're inside. Every group - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies.
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Premiere DateJul 12, 1997
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Cast
- BD Wong as Father Ray Mukada
- Christopher Meloni as Chris Keller
- Edie Falco as Officer Diane Whittlesey
- Harold Perrineau as Augustus Hill
- Kathryn Erbe as Shirley Bellinger
- Kirk Acevedo as Miguel Alvarez
- Chuck Zito as Charles 'Chucky' Pancamo
- Blake Robbins as Officer Dave Brass
- Terry Kinney as Tim McManus
- Steven Wishnoff as Tony Masters
- Eamonn Walker as Kareem Said
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Simon Adebisi
- Robert T. Bogue as Jason Cramer
- Lee Tergesen as Tobias 'Toby' Beecher
- Dean Winters as Ryan O'Reily
- Philip Casnoff as Nikolai Stanislofsky
- Anthony Chisholm as Burr Redding
- Ernie Hudson as Warden Leo Glynn
- J.K. Simmons as Vernon 'Vern' Schillinger
- Evan Seinfeld as Jaz Hoyt
- R.E. Rodgers as James Robson
- Tom Mardirosian as Agammemnon Busmalis
- Mark Margolis as Antonio Nappa
- George Morfogen as Bob Rebadow
- Otto Sanchez as Chico Guerra
- Luna Lauren Velez as Gloria Nathan
- David Zayas as Enrique Morales
- Zeljko Ivanek as Governor James Devlin
- J.D. Williams as Kenny Wangler
- Kristin Rohde as Claire Howell
- Robert Clohessy as Sean Murphy
- Michael Wright as Omar White
- Craig muMs Grant as Poet
- Luis Guzmán as Raoul Hernandez
- Rita Moreno as Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
- Granville Adams as Zahir Arif
- Scott William Winters as Cyril O'Reily
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References
S02E07 Animal Farm
Cyril O'Reily, Ryan's brother comes to Oz and is immediately violated by Schillinger. Ryan tries to get him away from OZ, but Cyril instead lands in the hole. El Cid tells Alvarez the only way he can "stay in the game" is to "pluck out" the eyes of a prison guard, Rivera. Bellinger and Adebisi exchanging love letters without meeting.