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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even he gets fed up with [[{{Jerkass}} Miles]]'s relentless assholery.
* {{Jerkass}}: One of the biggest in the series. He's a racist, cruel thug with no redeeming qualities.

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* AssholeVictim: He's brutally mauled by Penders's guide dog when he sics it on Lopresti for shoving his face into dog shit.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even he gets fed up with [[{{Jerkass}} Miles]]'s relentless assholery.
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* {{Jerkass}}: One of the biggest in the series. He's a racist, cruel cruel, bullying thug with no redeeming qualities.qualities.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: At one point, he sticks up for Schillinger and says he's a great guy. When Wittlesey calls him out in it, he proudly proclaims that he agrees with all of Schillinger's views.
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* PlayingTheVictimCard; Tries to make Rebadow pity him.
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--> '''Hughes:''' I NOW DECLARE THIS UNIT ''THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF HURU! HURU! HURU! HURU!'' '''UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE CAN HAVE FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS''', '''''I!''''' '''HAVE ASSUMED COMMAND!''' '''''YOU WILL NOW REFER TO ME AS 'YOUR EXCELLENCY!'''''''

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--> '''Hughes:''' I NOW DECLARE THIS UNIT ''THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF HURU! HURU! HURU! HURU!'' '''UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE CAN HAVE FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS''', '''''I!''''' '''HAVE ASSUMED COMMAND!''' '''''YOU WILL NOW NOW, HEREBY AND HEREWITH, REFER TO ME AS 'YOUR EXCELLENCY!'''''''
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--> '''Hughes:''' I NOW DECLARE THIS UNIT ''THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF HURU! HURU! HURU!'' '''UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE CAN HAVE FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS''', '''''I!''''' '''HAVE ASSUMED COMMAND!''' '''''YOU WILL NOW REFER TO ME AS 'YOUR EXCELLENCE!'''''''

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--> '''Hughes:''' I NOW DECLARE THIS UNIT ''THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF HURU! HURU! HURU! HURU!'' '''UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE CAN HAVE FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS''', '''''I!''''' '''HAVE ASSUMED COMMAND!''' '''''YOU WILL NOW REFER TO ME AS 'YOUR EXCELLENCE!'''''''EXCELLENCY!'''''''

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** He constantly antagonizes Yood and Basil despite them making an effort to be friendly with him

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** He constantly antagonizes Yood and Basil despite them making an effort to be friendly with himhim.
** He grows to hate his loving mother because she sheltered him too much.
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* CrazyJealousGirl: The reason [=McManus=] broke up with her was because she started harassing him over the fact he comforted Wittlesey when her mother died.

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* CrazyJealousGirl: [[CrazyJealousGuy Crazy Jealous Girl]]: The reason [=McManus=] broke up with her was because she started harassing him over the fact he comforted Wittlesey when her mother died.

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Shd initially starts out as being rather pleasant, but she drops the mask after [=McManus=] breaks up with her.
* CrazyJealousGirl: The reason [=McManus=] broke up with her was because she started harassing him over the fact he comforted Wittlesey when her mother died.



* DoesNotLikeMen: She expresses misandrist views in some of her rantings.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: She seems genuinely worried about the possibility of a war between the Aryans and the Muslims.



* {{Hypocrite}} : See the abortion example above. Her "religious beliefs" don't extend to murder and rape, just [[spoiler: abortion]], which begins to feel like a last-minute AssPull from the writers.

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* {{Hypocrite}} : {{Hypocrite}}: See the abortion example above. Her "religious beliefs" don't extend to murder and rape, just [[spoiler: abortion]], which begins to feel like a last-minute AssPull from the writers.


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* TookALevelInJerkass: She starts out as a BitchInSheepsClothing. After [=McManus=] breaks up with her, she loses the Sheep's Clothing.
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* PetTheDog: Unlike Howell he accepts that being punished for what he did to Morales was his own fault and makes a point of telling Murphy there isn't any hard feelings between them.
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* CantTakeCriticism: One of the main reasons Hughes falls into insanity is that he refuses to take any sort of constructive criticism and thus doesn't learn from his mistakes. This gets worse and worse, until finally he murders [[spoiler:Basil]] because he called Clayton out on being a {{Jerkass}}.


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* DisproportionateRetribution: He murders [[spoiler:Johnny Basil]] because he called Hughes out on being a dick.


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* {{Jerkass}}: Hughes becomes increasingly self-righteous, bigoted and cruel as time goes on, until he finally becomes an insufferable jerk who constantly insults people just trying to be friendly to him.
* KickTheDog: Yood and Basil are nothing but friendly to him when he's sent to Cop Block, which Hughes rewards by continuously berating them and repeatedly attacking Yood at the slightest provocation. It culminates in him killing [[spoiler:Basil]] when he calls him out on being such an asshole to them out of sheer spite, then laughs about it to Glynn's face.
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--> '''Hughes:''' I NOW DECLARE THIS UNIT ''THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF HURU! HURU! HURU!'' '''UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE CAN HAVE FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS''', '''''I!'''' '''HAVE ASSUMED COMMAND!''' '''''YOU WILL NOW REFER TO ME AS 'YOUR EXCELLENCE!'''''''

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--> '''Hughes:''' I NOW DECLARE THIS UNIT ''THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF HURU! HURU! HURU!'' '''UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE CAN HAVE FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS''', '''''I!'''' '''''I!''''' '''HAVE ASSUMED COMMAND!''' '''''YOU WILL NOW REFER TO ME AS 'YOUR EXCELLENCE!'''''''
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--> '''Hughes:''' I NOW DECLARE THIS UNIT ''THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF HURU! HURU! HURU!'' '''UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE CAN HAVE FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS''', '''''I!'''' '''HAVE ASSUMED COMMAND!'''

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--> '''Hughes:''' I NOW DECLARE THIS UNIT ''THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF HURU! HURU! HURU!'' '''UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE CAN HAVE FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS''', '''''I!'''' '''HAVE ASSUMED COMMAND!'''COMMAND!''' '''''YOU WILL NOW REFER TO ME AS 'YOUR EXCELLENCE!'''''''

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* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: He's only able to see in black and white, rather than shades of gray, which is a bad thing to be in Oz and makes it easy for Adebisi to corrupt him.



* IJustWantToBeBadass

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* IJustWantToBeBadassTheCorruptible: Adebisi's influence is what ultimately causes Hughes's descent into radicalism and insanity.
* IJustWantToBeBadass: He desperately wants respect, but he's too nervous and incompetent to get it. This leads to a vicious cycle of him doing stupid things to get it, then blistering when this impacts his standing and he does something stupid again, and so on and so on.


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* LargeHam: [[spoiler:After going crazy]], he starts chewing the scenery like no one's business.
--> '''Hughes:''' I NOW DECLARE THIS UNIT ''THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF HURU! HURU! HURU!'' '''UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE CAN HAVE FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS''', '''''I!'''' '''HAVE ASSUMED COMMAND!'''
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A death row CO.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even he gets fed up with [[{{Jerkass}} Miles]]'s relentless assholery.
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[[folder:Brese]]
!!Roger Brese
->'''Played By:''' Ray Iannicelli

A CO who guards the entrance gate.
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* TheAlcoholic: He's eventually revealed to be an alcoholic. [[spoiler:Idzik is only able to sneak a gun in because Brese was drunk while on duty.]]
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Glynn fires him for letting Lemuel Idzik sneak a gun in.]]
* RecurringExtra: He generally stays off in the background unless a guard is needed to show up at the gate that isn't Wittlesey.

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An elderly CO.
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* RecurringExtra: Mineo mostly remains in the background, though he surge to prominence every once in a while.

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* RecurringExtra: Mineo mostly remains in the background, though he surge to prominence every once in eventually ascends into being a while.MauveShirt by Season 4.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: He's an old man and one of the more mean-spirited guards.


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A SORT team officer.
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A CO sympathetic to the Muslims.
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A CO.
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* PetTheDog: She saved Alvarez from his suicide attempt.
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/CarlDiMaggio

* {{Jerkass}}: One of the biggest in the series.

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->'''Played By:''' Creator/CarlDiMaggio

Carl [=DiMaggio=]

* {{Jerkass}}: One of the biggest in the series. He's a racist, cruel thug with no redeeming qualities.
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-> ''"You know what I want? To look at him in the eye, just for a second, to have him see me, what he did, and to find out why. Why?"''
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Disappears after Season 2.


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* OddFriendship: Heim is as hateful of the inmates as most [=COs=], but he gets on well with [=McManus=] and the two regularly play poker together.

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* OnlySaneMan: For the Italians after Peter Schibetta takes over, having the unenviable task of stopping the overconfident Schibetta and the blindly loyal Pancani from getting themselves killed.

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* OnlySaneMan: For the Italians after Peter Schibetta takes over, having the unenviable task of stopping the overconfident Schibetta and the blindly loyal Pancani Pancano from getting themselves killed.


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A rookie CO.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Season's greetings, fuckwad!"'']]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"All I am is a highly-trained, underpaid member of the Correctional Officer's Benevolent Association. But if I am what you think I am, you should tip-toe."'']]

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He receives a gruesome and very well-deserved one.

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* TheBully: It becomes increasingly clear that he loves throwing his weight around and bullying prisoners who can't fight back, especially the ones who've pissed off the Aryans.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He receives a gruesome [[spoiler:Beecher gruesomely slices up his face and very well-deserved one.throat with his sharpened fingernails, and Metzger chokes to death on his own blood while vainly trying to call out for help.]]



* FauxAffablyEvil: Metzger can be creepily polite while threatening people.



* SmugSnake: He's cunning and menacing, but too self-assured to avoid threats from the people he underestimated.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: He underestimates both [=McManus=] and Beecher, [[spoiler:which proves lethal in the latter's case]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's popular with his fellow [=COs=].



An irritable CO with a hatred of [=McManus=].
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* {{Jerkass}}: While he isn't flagrantly corrupt, he's still kind of a sick and prone to mocking the prisoners.

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* {{Jerkass}}: While he isn't flagrantly corrupt, he's still kind of a sick dick and prone to mocking the prisoners.



* PutOnABus: He's transferred out of Em City by Querns in Season 4.

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* PutOnABus: He's transferred out of Em City by Querns in Season 4. He comes back the next season.

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-> '''Played By:''' Skipp Sudduth

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-> '''Played By:''' Skipp Sudduth
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Hd just disappears from the series after Season 2.

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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Hd He just disappears from the series after Season 2.


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* OnlySaneMan: For the Italians after Peter Schibetta takes over, having the unenviable task of stopping the overconfident Schibetta and the blindly loyal Pancani from getting themselves killed.
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[[folder:Eugene Rivera]]

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[[folder:Eugene Rivera]][[folder:Rivera]]

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[[folder:Eugene Rivera]]
!! Eugene Rivera
-> '''Played By:''' Nelson Vasquez

A CO blinded by Alvarez on El Cid's orders.
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* ArmourPiercingQuestion: When he asks Alvarez what he ever did to deserve being blinded by him.
* DrivenToSuicide: He contemplates killing himself so that his wife can have a normal life after Alvarez blinds him.
* HeelFaceTurn: Apparently used to be part of a gang but in present day he doesn't seem like a bad guy.
* HappilyMarried: He loves his wife and his decision to forgive Alvarez and accept Julie, the guide dog as a gift is partly so that she doesn't have to spend all her time taking care of him.
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* {{Irony}}: Despite being a black militant he's indirectly responsible for the murder of three black men by a white guy, and when given the opportunity to kill either a white man or a black one, he kills the black man.

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* {{Irony}}: Despite being a black militant he's indirectly responsible for the murder of three four black men by a white guy, and when given the opportunity to kill either a white man or a black one, he kills the black man.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While corrupt, he still tends to be one of the more friend even-handed [=COs=] and dutifully carries out his orders.

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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While corrupt, he still tends to be one of the more friend even-handed [=COs=] and dutifully carries out his orders.orders.
* RecurringExtra: Armstrong's main purpose is to stand in the background and take orders from Glynn and [=McManus=].
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A SORT team member.
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