- HD 1080
- Runtime: 60m.
- Status: Ended
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Stars: Lee Tergesen, Harold Perrineau, Dean Winters, Eamonn Walker, Ernie Hudson
- keywords: prison, experiment, dystopia, revenge, betrayal, racism, drugs, inmate, catholicism, aryan, prison life, abuse of power
- Production_studio: The Levinson/Fontana Company, Rysher Entertainment
- Slogan: Life's not a word. It's a sentence.
- Seasons: 6
- Episodes: 56
- First air date: 1997-07-12
- Last air date: 2003-02-23
- providers: Max, Max Amazon Channel, Spectrum On Demand
- The Oz is featured in the top rankings of 1997
- #3 in Top Drama Series of 1997
- #1 in Top Crime Series of 1997
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
