Jahfree Neema

Jahfree Neema is a character at HBO drama Oz played by Peter Francis James.

Character Overview

Neema is a Black inmate who was arrested after picking up his own daughter from school. He's divorced and his daughter pick up was seen as a kidnapping. He is a former Black Panther and recognizes his old love: Suzanne Fitzgerald, Ryan O'Reily's mother working at Oz.

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Neema arrives in Emerald City and Suzanne asks Ryan to be gentle and helpful with him. He was the responsible for Suzanne enters in the protests world. Ryan went to talk to Jahfree, but Neema repudiate Ryan. Then, Black inmates Reggie Rawls, Poet and Kenaniah Maxwell ask Neema to lead them, but he refuses. Neema starts respecting Ryan when he discovers that he is fighting to save his brother Cyril’s life. When Cyril’s execution day arrives, Neema organized all Emerald City inmates to pound their cell's glasses, but Cyril wasn't executed. When Ryan and Cyril’s father, Seamus O'Reily, arrives in unit B he starts asking Aryan leader Vern Schillinger to kill Neema because he was jealous. Schillinger denies and Seamus decides to do it himself. Seamus attacks Neema in the Delivery Room. Neema defends himself and ends stabbing Seamus. Neema is thrown in the Hole. He only got out when Oz was being evacuated.