Oz

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. Oz is hard times doing hard time.

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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?

Oz (TV series), CC BY-SA 4.0

Vernon Schillinger: You're not a Jew, are you? Tobias Beecher: Me? Jewish? I don't even like Barbra Streisand. Vernon Schillinger: You like my tattoos? Tobias Beecher: Yeah. Vernon Schillinger: We're gonna have to get you one. Tobias Beecher: [laughs] I don't think so. Vernon Schillinger: Oh, yeah, I'm gonna brand you myself. Tobias Beecher: Livestock gets branded. Vernon Schillinger: [chuckles] Livestock. Yeah, that's exactly what you are, my livestock. Because now, Tobias. Your ass belongs to me.

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Tim McManus: In Em City we treat each other the way that we would like to be treated. We treat each other with respect. Kareem Said: And what happens when one of us does not respect the other? Tim McManus: There's violence. Kareem Said: Then prison life isn't all that different from the outside world. Tim McManus: Your celebrity status doesn't buy you any extra advantages here. All my prisoners are equal. Kareem Said: How ironic. To finally be an equal in a place where I do not have the freedom to enjoy it.

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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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Fuck is a four letter word. Rape is a four letter word. Wife is a four letter word. So is love. Fuck is a curse. So is love.

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