Alvin Yood is a character at HBO drama Oz

Oz (TV series)

Oz is an American television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes . It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by premium cable network HBO. Oz premiered on July 12, 1997 and ran for six seasons...

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 highly decorated small town's sheriff

Sheriff

A sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country....

, Alvin Yood was convicted after beating a minor during an interrogation after the boy spat on him. Yood was sent to Oz, at Unit J. He loves to eat food and likes to keep his reading well-rounded with subscriptions to Swank, Better Homes and Gardens

Better Homes and Gardens (magazine)

Better Homes and Gardens is the fourth best selling magazine in the United States. The editor in Chief is Gayle Butler. Better Homes and Gardens focuses on interests regarding homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The magazine is published 12 times per...

, and Newsweek

Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

. Despite his cynical attitude, Yood has a friendly demeanour and became good friends with John Basil, the two seen playing cards and arm wrestling. He refers to Howell as "Her Highness" and compares her to "The Bride of Frankenstein". He also tries being Friendly with former corrections officer Clayton Hughes.Yood also seems to get along quite well with Inmates despite being a former Police Officer.

Season 4, part II

After attempting to kill Governor James Devlin

Governor James Devlin

Governor James Devlin is a fictional character on the HBO drama Oz, played by Željko Ivanek.-Character overview:Devlin, the governor of the state, is hated by most of the inmates and some of the staff members at the Oswald State Correctional facilities as he proposes several anti-prisoner acts of...

, Clayton Hughes

Clayton Hughes

Clayton Hughes is a character played by Seth Gilliam on the HBO dramatic series Oz, which takes place in an experimental prison unit.He started out as a corrections officer. Warden Glynn did not want Clayton to work in Oz. The main reason was that Clayton's father, Samuel Hughes, was murdered in Oz...

 was arrested and sent to Unit J, with John Basil, who was in for killing a cop while undercover, and Yood. Basil and Yood were always at odds with Hughes. While talking in the phone, Claire Howell

Claire Howell

Claire Howell is a fictional character on the HBO drama Oz portrayed by Kristin Rohde.-Character overview:A sexual predator serving as a guard in the eponymous prison, she preys on all the men in her orbit, prisoners and guards alike, as human sex toys who exist for her to dominate...

 is locked in her office by Hughes, who stabs Basil to death. Yood attacks Hughes, who is taken to solitary. Then, Ryan O'Reily

Ryan O'Reily

Ryan O'Reily is a main character in the television series Oz. He was portrayed by Dean Winters from 1997 to 2003.-Character overview:Prisoner #97P904. Convicted July 12, 1997 - Two counts of vehicular manslaughter, five counts of reckless endangerment, possession of a controlled substance,...

, tired of being sexually coerced by Howell, pays Yood, who bumped Howell down the stairs, breaking her pelvis. Yood agrees to injure Howell and not murder her saying that "I'm no killer", but after pushing Howell down the stairs he says, "Maybe I lucked out and killed her." He does not receive any time in solitary confinement for pushing Howell.

Season 5

This season is pretty calm to Yood, who takes Tobias Beecher

Tobias Beecher

Tobias Beecher is a main character on the television show Oz, played by Lee Tergesen. He is one of only eight regular characters to survive the entire run of the show...

's job as Sister Peter Marie's assistant.
He jokes to Beecher that he was foolish to give up the job

Season 6

Beecher is sent to Unit J, so the Aryan Brotherhood

The Aryan Brotherhood in Oz

The Aryan Brotherhood in the TV series Oz is a gang of white supremacist inmates led by Vernon Schillinger.-Overview:The Aryans of Oz are a loosely organized gang of white supremacist inmates. As a minority, the Caucasian-American prisoners of the gang mostly come from criminal backgrounds already...

 can't hurt him before the day he is to be released. Mayor Wilson Loewen

Wilson Loewen

Wilson Loewen is a fictional character at HBO's drama Oz played by Tom Atkins.-Character Overview:Mayor Wilson Loewen was a politician who helped Governor James Devlin get elected. He was arrested after the police discovered he was involved with two murders of Black-Americans girls in 1963 during...

 is arrested and sent to Unit J. There, during a dinner, Loewen begins to choke and Beecher saves his life using the Heimlich maneuver. Then, Yood tells Beecher that the Aryan Brotherhood killed his father and he must do something. Beecher is released and Yood is alone in Unit J until Willy Brandt

Willy Brandt (Oz)

William "Willy" Brandt is a fictional character at HBO drama Oz. Willy Brandt is played by Matthew Cowles.-Character Overview:Prisoner 96B339, William "Willy" Brandt....

 arrives. He is sent to Unit J because the Protective Custody Unit is full. Then, Perry Loftus

Perry Loftus

Perry Loftus is a fictional character at HBO drama Oz played by Christopher Neal Jackson.-Character Overview:An intelligent African American young man, Perry Loftus studied with Oz's CO Adrian Johnson. After getting out of the University, Loftus became Governor James Devlin's assistant.-Season...

 orders CO Adrian Johnson

Adrian Johnson

Adrian Johnson, played by Cyrus Farmer, is one of the African American corrections officer on the HBO drama Oz.-Character overview:He first appears as one of the several African American corrections officers to work in Emerald City under the management of Martin Querns...

to kill Brandt. The next day, Brandt is dead. Yood witnessed it, and for his own survival, refused to tell who the killer was.