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Father Ray Mukada
Position: Chaplain, Oswald State Correctional Facility
Actor: B.D. Wong
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Dr. Gloria Nathan
Position: Medical Doctor, Oswald State Correctional Facility
Actor: Lauren Vélez
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Officer Sean Murphy
Position: Head Correctional Officer, Cell Block 5 ("Emerald City"), Oswald State Correctional Facility
Actor: Robert Clohessy
Transferred to Lobby Desk by Martin Querns. Transferred to Unit B by Tim McManus, then back to Em City.
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Officer Claire Howell
Position: Correctional Officer, Oswald State Correctional Facility
Actor: Kristin Rohde
Transferred to Cell Block 5 "Emerald City" by Martin Querns. Transferred to Unit J by Tim McManus in 2001. Assigned to Solitary unit in 2003.
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Governor James Devlin
Position: Governor
Actor: Zeljko Ivanek
Won re-election in 2000.
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Suzanne Fitzgerald
Position: Musical Arts/Theatre Teacher
Actor: Betty Lynn Buckley
60's Radical released from Parker Women's Correctional; Governor Devlin reduced her sentence to 2 years of community service, which she is completing at Oswald S.C.F. Inmate Ryan O'Reily's biological mother.
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Officer Joseph Mineo
Position: Correctional Officer, Oswald State Correctional Facility
Actor: Philip V. Scozzarella
Assigned to Cell Block 5, "Emerald City."
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Officer Jason Armstrong
Position: Correctional Officer, Oswald State Correctional Facility
Actor: Timothy L. Brown
Assigned to Cell Block 5, "Emerald City."
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Officer Len Lopresti
Position: Correctional Officer, Oswald State Correctional Facility
Actor: Carl DiMaggio
Assigned to Death Row.
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Stella Coffo
Position: Head Librarian, Oswald State Correctional Facility
Actor: Patti LuPone
A former librarian in Boston, she decided to help prisoners learn to love reading.
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Eleanor O'Connor
Position: Governor's Liason to Oswald S.C.F.
Actor: Ellen McElduff
Brought in during 2002 to act as the liason between Governor Devlin's administration and the prison. Administrator Tim McManus' ex-wife.
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Perry Loftus
Position: Assitant to Governor
Actor: Christopher Neal Jackson
Governor James Devlin's assistant.
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Monsignor Slon
Position: Vicar General of the Archdiocese.
Actor: Jack Davidson
Arrives to relieve Father Ray of his duties as a Catholic priest after Timmy Kirk accuses him of sexual abuse.
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Harrison Beecher
Actor: Edward Herrmann
Tobias Beecher's father. Representing Chris Keller's death sentence appeal. Stabbed to death by Franklin Winthrop as an intiation into the Aryan Brotherhood.
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Steve Dawkins
Position: Head of Parole Board
Actor: Lou Sones
Head of the Parole Board, who granted the release of Tobias Beecher.
Retired in 2003, succeeded by Luis Ruiz.
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Donna Degenhart
Position: Owner, telemarketing enterprise
Actor: Andrea Anders
Setting up tele-marketing businesses in Oswald and Parker Womens Correctional Facilities.
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Nurse Carol Grace
Position: Registered Nurse, Oswald State Correctional Facility
Actor: Catherine Wolf
Dr. Nathan fired Grace after Carlos Martinez coded and died because Grace was "busy" and didn't hear it, but she ended up getting her job back.
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Detective Guinevere McGorry
Position: Police Detective
Actor: Connie Nelson
Det. McGorry investigated the death of Bruno Goergen in 2000; Currently investigating the deaths of Wilson Loewen and Kareem Said.
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Special Agent Pierce Taylor
Position: FBI Special Agent
Actor: Robert John Burke
Agent Pierce investigated the kidnapping of Holly and Gary Beecher; investigated the murder of several homosexual men, with Chris Keller as the prime suspect; investigated the disappearance of Hank Schillinger.
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Detective Tarnowski
Position: Police Detective
Actor: Casey Siemaszko
After McGorry took too long to investigate the death of Wilson Loewen, Tarnowski was brought in to wrap it up.
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Luis Ruiz
Position: Parole Board
Actor: Gary Perez
Member of the Parole Board, who denied the release of Miguel Alvarez. Alvarez punched Ruiz and tried to strangle him in 2002. Promoted to Head of Parole Board, following retirement of Steve Dawkins.
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Martin Querns
Position: Warden, Lardner State Correctional Facility
Actor: Reg E. Cathey
Replaced McManus as Unit Administrator, Cell Block 5 ("Emerald City"), until fired by Warden Glynn after Adebisi's death. Later hired as Warden of Lardner State Correctional Facility. Transferred to Oswald after Leo Glynn's death.
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Jessica Kirk
Actor: Roxanne Hart
Timothy Kirk's mother. After Timmy's death, Jessica became obsessed with Father Ray. She began working in the hospital ward in 2003 as a nurse.
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Officer Travis Smith
Position: Correctional Officer, Oswald State Correctional Facility
Actor: Jerome Preston Bates
Moved to Cell Block 5 "Emerald City", Head Correctional Officer, by Martin Querns. Transferred to Solitary by Tim McManus.
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Officer Dave Brass
Position: Correctional Officer, Oswald State Correctional Facility
Actor: Blake Robbins
Achilles tendon was severed by an inmate after winning a basketball game -- and being signed on with the Sacramento Kings. Returned to work in 2002. He resigned in 2003 and then attempted to shoot Jackson Vahue. He was arrested.
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Officer Andrea Phelan
Position: Correctional Officer, Oswald State Correctional Facility
Actor: Pepa
Assigned to Unit B.
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Officer Tom Robinson
Position: Correctional Officer, Oswald State Correctional Facility
Actor: Jon Korkes
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Officer Roger Brese
Position: Correctional Officer, Lobby Desk, Oswald Maximum Security Prison
Actor: Ray Iannicelli
Lobby Desk. Fired by Leo Glynn in 2003 after Lemuel Idzik entered Oswald with a concealed gun and murdered Kareem Said.
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Officer Adrian Johnson
Position: Correctional Officer, Oswald State Correctional Facility
Actor: Cyrus Farmer
After Wilson Loewen was murdered by inmate William Brandt, Brandt insisted that C.O. Johnson payed him $5000 to do it. Johnson is later arrested after inmate Lionel Kelsch gives him up as the man who hired him to kill Brandt and Glynn. Johnson then rats out Loftus, the Governer's assistant.
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