Richie Hanlon
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Richie Hanlon is a fictional character on the TV show Oz. A former drug dealer, he is imprisoned when a customer of his accidentally overdoses on drugs. Because he is gay, and the Aryan Brotherhood members force sex out of him, thinking he likes it. He later dies upon release from death row.
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[edit] Season 2
Hanlon is one of the inmates let back into Em City as a part of Tim McManus' strategy to unify all the prison groups. Inside he represents the Homosexuals at the council meetings. He later hears inmate Miguel Alvarez laughing about the rape of Warden Glynn's daughter and knowing the people who committed it. Richie, sickened by the rape of an innocent woman, tells Father Ray Mukada what he has heard, who in turn immediately informs Warden Glynn. Glynn questions Alvarez who says nothing about the rape. Later, Hanlon finds Justin Appel and the other Aryan inmates inside his cell. They demand oral sex from him. As he is performing oral sex on Mark Mack, he is told that they murdered Alexander Vogel. When he is casually propositioned by another inmate who observed the encounter, Richie punches him and accidentally knocks him him over the railing, killing him. Unit Manager Tim McManus tells him he'll be charged with murder and has a hard time believing that Richie was threatened with rape. Richie then tries to cut a deal with the authorities informing them about the Aryans killing Vogel. Richie is sent to the hole while the investigation occurs and CO Karl Metzger comes in. Metzger is a full flegged member of the Aryan Brotherhood and tells Richie that he will confess to the murder of Alexander Vogel or else he will die at the hands of the Brotherhood. He also points out that they will agree to let Richie live if he gets Life Imprisonment for murder. Richie confesses and is sentenced to death for two murders.
[edit] Season 3
Richie is sent to death row where the only other prisoner is a woman named Shirley Bellinger. She is sexually promiscuous and asks to see Richie's penis on several occasions, not bothered by the fact that he is gay. On death row, inmate Vernon Schillinger, the head of the Aryan Brotherhood, delivers mail insulting Richie about his sexual orientation on a daily basis. Bellinger asks what the problem between the two of them is and he tells her that Schillinger and the Aryans threatened to kill him if he did not take the murder rap. She suggests that he lie and say that Vern assisted him as a means of getting him on death row as well. Richie thinks about it but is freed later when his lawyer finds a loophole in the case. Hanlon still serves his original sentence but is murdered in the shower room by a friend of Vogel named Nikolai Stanislofsky.
[edit] Trivia
Because of actor Jordan Lage's physical resemblance to Christopher Meloni, the character of Richie Hanlon is often mistaken for the character Chris Keller by casual viewers.
