Oz, that's the name on the street for the Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary. Oz is retro, Oz is retribution. You wanna punish a man? Separate him from his family, separate him from himself, cage him up with his own kind.
“The Routine” · Season 1, Episode 1
In this episode: Augustus Hill (3), Tim McManus (2), Kareem Said (2), Tobias Beecher (1), Vernon Schillinger (1), Sister Pete (1), Diane Wittlesey (1), Jefferson Keane (1)
Like my tattoos? I'm going to get you one.
No, thanks.
Oh, yeah, I'm going to brand you myself.
Livestock gets branded.
Yeah, livestock, that's what you are... my livestock. Because now, Tobias, your ass belongs to me.
There's something in the air. And it ain't love.
I would give my life for you.
You gonna have to.
Tim, we gotta talk.
About what?
About sex.
Sister, you're insatiable.
JJoey
He ate his mother.
Get the fuck out of here!
JJoey
So I heard. He killed her, then he broiled her head. Smothered it in onions.
DDino
What, no garlic?
Oz is where I live. Oz is where I will die, where most of us will die. What we were don't matter. What we are don't matter. What we become don't matter. Does it?
In Em City we treat each other the way that we would like to be treated. We treat each other with respect.
And what happens when one of us does not respect the other?
There's violence.
Then prison life isn't all that different from the outside world.
Your celebrity status doesn't buy you any extra advantages here. All my prisoners are equal.
How ironic. To finally be an equal in a place where I do not have the freedom to enjoy it.
People kill to stay alive. That's as true in prison as out. I wonder why in here we fight so hard to stay alive. A man gets sentenced to 100 years, he really thinks if he exercises, gets all buff, stays diesel, he's gonna walk out? A judge says life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Without the possibility. Lifers. At some point they realize they ain't going nowhere. I seen it happen. A calm comes in their eyes. It's like they figured out something that the rest of us are never gonna see. They're suddenly free in a whole other kinda way. They're ready to die. And maybe they do what they can to help that shit along.
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