Alvin Yood

Alvin Yood is a character at HBO drama Oz played by Tom Ligon.

Character Overview

"Prisoner 01Y218. Convicted January 20, 2001 for aggravated assault of a minor. Sentence of 12 years, up for parole in seven."

A small town's sheriff, Alvin Yood was convicted after beating a minor during an interrogatory after the boy spat on him. Yood was sent to Oz, at Unit J.

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After attempting to kill Governor James Devlin, Clayton Hughes was arrested and sent to Unit J, with John Basil and Yood. Basil and Yood were always at arguments with Hughes. While talking in the phone, Claire Howell is locked at his office by Hughes, who stabs Basil to death. Yood attacks Hughes, who is taken to the solitary. Then, Ryan O'Reily, tired of being "raped" by Howell, pays Yood, who bumped Howell down the stairs, breaking her pelvis.

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This season is pretty calm to Yood, who takes Tobias Beecher's job as Sister Peter Marie's assistant.

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Beecher is sent to Unit J, so the Aryan Brotherhood can't hurt him until the day he is to be released. Mayor Wilson Loewen is arrested and sent to Unit J. There, during a huge dinner, Loewen gets sick and Beecher saves his life. Then, Yood tells Beecher that the Aryan Brotherhood killed his father and he must do something about. Beecher is released and Yood is alone in Unit J 'until Willy Brandt arrives. He is sent to Unit J because the Protective Custody Unit is full. Then, Perry Loftus orders CO Adrian Johnson to kill Brandt. The next day, Brandt is dead. Yood witnessed it, and for his own survival, refused to tell who the killer was.