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The Italians, also known as The Sicilians, or The Wiseguys, are a large, organized gang of Italian and Sicilian Mafia inmates in Oz involved in the prison gambling business and the prison drug trade.

Summary[]

The Sicilians are one of the most violent gangs in Oz. The leadership and membership of the Wiseguys fluctuates dramatically throughout the series, mostly due to intense internal conflict and numerous violent struggles for the drug trade with many gangs in Oz. They are initially led by Nino Schibetta, then he is killed as a result of having ground glass put into his food by Simon Adebisi and Ryan O'Reily. In Season 2, Peter Schibetta enters Oz and leads the mobsters. O'Reily tells Schibetta that Adebisi put the glass in Nino's food. When Schibetta tries to get revenge, Adebisi knocks out Pancamo and Schibetta and then he brutally rapes Schibetta. Later, Antonio Nappa is sent to Oz and messes up Adebisi's drug trade and convinces 17-year-old inmate, Kenny Wangler to work for him, but first Wangler has to kill an elderly, African prisoner named Kipekemie Jara (who had control of Adebisi). Wangler does so and the Wiseguys and the Homeboys call a truce. Later, Nappa gets infected with HIV when Adebisi stabs him with an AIDS-infected needle. Then Chucky Pancamo leads the Sicilians.

Throughout the series, the Sicilians primarily feud with the Homeboys and later briefly with the Latino inmates over the drug trade of Oz, but the Sicilians overall have a good partnership with the Latinos. Though on several occasions the three groups ally for a fair three-way split of the drug trade.

Plot summary[]

Season 1[]

  • Episode 1.1 "The Routine" - Italian inmate, Dino Ortolani's impulsive behavior makes him a target of the Homeboys. Ortolani is in the showers the same time as Billie Keane, as Billie is homosexual he tries to make a move on him. Ortolani violently beats Billie attempting to kill him. As punishment, Ortolani is assigned by McManus to work in the AIDS ward. Meanwhile, Ryan O'Reily is plotting against Ortolani for trying to kill him a year earlier (which is why Ortolani is in Oz). Ortolani meets AIDS patient, Emilio Sanchez. Sanchez needs Ortolani to kill him. Ortolani is hesitant at first but then decides to do it. Ortolani takes Sanchez off his life support and suffocates him. For this, he is beaten by the COs. He is then sedated and restrained in the hole. Johnny Post is let into the hole and sets Ortolani on fire.
  • Episode 1.2 "Visits, Conjugals and Otherwise" – Investigation on Ortolani's death is led by Sicilian Staff Member, Lenny Burrano. Burrano intimidates Ryan O'Reily into telling Nino Schibetta that Johnny Post murdered Ortolani. Post is killed and castrated and the war between the Homeboys and the Sicilians escalates even further.
  • Episode 1.3 "God's Chillin" - Nino Schibetta, Jefferson Keane and Kareem Said, the leader of the Muslims, are all sent to Warden Leo Glynn's office. Glynn tells them to stop the violence in Oz. Afterwards, Adebisi and Markstrom start a fight with Joey D'Angelo in the gym. Meanwhile, O’Reily tells Schibetta that Keane ordered Ortolani's murder. O’Reily takes care of Keane by setting him up to kill two Latino inmates. Keane kills one of the Latinos and is executed by the state as a result.
  • Episode 1.4 "Capital P" - D'Angelo & O'Reily have an argument over a bet which angers O'Reily. As a result, O'Reily tells Kenny Wangler and Adebisi that D'Angelo set up Keane to be executed. Adebisi and Wangler ambush D'Angelo in the kitchen which puts him out of commission.
  • Episode 1.5 "Straight Life" - All the Sicilians except Nino Schibetta are transferred out of Emerald City. Schibetta goes to the Homeboys and makes them an offer they can’t refuse - A partnership in the drug trade. They all call a truce and they agree to work together in the drug trade. However, Schibetta finds out Paul Markstrom is an undercover cop and gets Simon Adebisi to have Markstrom whacked. He also tells O’Reily to shut down Officer Mike Healy's drug operation as its cutting into Schibetta’s. O'Reily sets Healy up and Healy is arrested.
  • Episode 1.6 "To Your Health"- Schibetta has O'Reily run the kitchen for him since he thinks Adebisi isn't fit to do the job. This angers Adebisi and he doesn't desire to work with O'Reily. Schibetta threatens to have him transferred to another job and Adebisi says he doesn't wish to work anywhere else. Schibetta tells Adebisi to shut the fuck up then and to agree to having O’Reily run things. Adebisi thinks Schibetta doesn't trust him, but Schibetta doesn't need Adebisi to mess things up and thinks O’Reily will do a better job than Ortolani ever did. Adebisi has his Homeboys deliberately work slow in the kitchen. This causes the prisoners to get riled up. O'Reily is angry and orders everyone to pick up the pace. O'Reily tells Adebisi he isn't fooling him and believe that Schibetta is doing this on purpose so he can have the two go at each other's throats. O'Reily and Adebisi scheme to take out Schibetta by putting ground glass in his food. Schibetta begins to have stomach pains and Adebisi and O'Reily realize their plan is working.
  • Episode 1.7 "Plan B" - O’Reily and Adebisi continue to put glass in Schibetta's food. Schibetta hemmorhages and is put in the hospital. O'Reily continues to feed him glass until he is ultimately killed.

Season 2[]

  • Episode 2.2 "Ancient Tribes" - Nino's son, Peter Schibetta arrives in Oz. Schibetta leads the Sicilians and longs for revenge for his father. Schibetta is one of the four Sicilians allowed into Emerald City after it re-opened from the riot from 10 months ago. The other 3 Wiseguys allowed in Em City are Chucky Pancamo, Don Zanghi and Mario Seggio. The Sicilians take over the kitchen, but need to take down Adebisi after O’Reily tells Schibetta that Adebisi killed his father (even though he was jointly killed by O'Reily and Adebisi).
  • Episode 2.4 "Losing Your Appeal" - Schibetta tries to convince Latino leader, Miguel Alvarez to whack Adebisi, but Alvarez refuses. Alvarez decides to watch Schibetta and Adebisi fight each other before making his "move" for the Latinos.
  • Episode 2.5 "Family Bizness" - Schibetta blackmails Warden Glynn when he tells him about his brother murdering another man, but eventually Glynn has his brother turn himself in to the police. Schibetta starts to gets sick. Later, it's discovered that Schibetta was poisoned. It turns out Adebisi put rat poison in his chocolate bar. Then Schibetta and the Sicilians lose the cafeteria. Glynn transfers the Sicilians to the dress factory as revenge for Schibetta blackmailing him.
  • Episode 2.6 "Strange Bedfellows" - Schibetta tries to prove his leadership by plotting to kill Adebisi. Schibetta and Pancamo try to ambush Adebsi in the kitchen, but fail horribly. Adebisi knocks out Pancamo with a can of peaches and rapes Schibetta. Schibetta is shaken up and humiliated. He is taken to the infirmary. As a result for his failure, Lenny Burrano tells Schibetta’s he's no longer the leader of the Sicilians. Near the end of the season, Schibetta is taken to the psych ward of Oz.
  • Episode 2.7 "Animal Farm" - Pancamo is released from the infirmary and Antonio Nappa, the new leader, takes over the Wiseguys. Nappa tells Burrano to suggest to Glynn that he has a random drug test since Adebisi is a serious heroin addict. Nappa uses this ploy to slow him down, steal his drug operation and as for revenge for sexually assaulting Schibetta.
  • Episode 2.8 "Escape from Oz" - New African inmate Kipekemie Jara becomes a "distraction" for Adebisi, so Nappa approaches Kenny Wangler by convincing him into sharing the drug trade with the Sicilians if he whacks Jara. Wangler then stabs Jara in the kitchen and Adebisi has a psychotic episode and gets blamed for the death of Jara by the hacks. As a result, Adebisi is put in the psych ward.

Season 3[]

  • Episode 3.1 "The Truth and Nothing But..." - Nappa is now in charge of the cafeteria and is leading the Sicilians with an iron fist. When new Homeboy leader, Kenny Wangler recruits new homeboy inmate, Malcolm Coyle to his gang, Nappa doesn't take him too kindly to the operation and accuses him of potentially being an undercover cop. Nappa has Wangler put Coyle to a test for his loyalty, so Wangler and the Homeboys beat on Coyle to prove his allegiance to their gang. After Coyle takes a brutal beating, he is accepted into the Homeboys and their operations.
  • Episode 3.2 "Napoleon's Boney Parts" - Simon Adebisi is back in Em City and works in the AIDS ward. Adebisi steals a patients blood type and infects Nappa with it, using a needle to avenge Jara's death.
  • Episode 3.3 "Legs" - The Sicilians agree to protect Augustus Hill from the Homeboys as they needed to kill him for telling Warden Glynn about Malcolm Coyle killing the Ciancimino family. As a result, Nappa orders Coyle's death. Nappa is sent to Unit E as he got tested HIV+ meanwhile, before he got transferred, he is supporting Chucky Pancamo boxing against Biker inmate, Steve Pasquin who he knocks out with one punch.
  • Episode 3.5 "U.S. Male" - Chucky Pancamo agrees to work with Simon Adebisi & Raoul Hernandez in the drug trade. Adebisi and the Latinos take out Poet & Junior Pierce and make the deed look like an "accident".
  • Episode 3.7 "Secret Identities" - Pancamo takes over the Wiseguys and finds out that Nappa is making memoirs about his criminal life and could get a lot of people into trouble. So Pancamo gets a gay HIV+ inmate, Nat Ginzburg to kill Nappa by suffocating him to death with a pillow.

Season 4 Part I[]

  • Episode 4.3 "A Bill of Wrongs" - Hernandez is on a nervous breakdown and turns in Adebisi to the Warden for planting a gun in Guillaume Tarrant's cell which he used to murder a C.O. along with Kenny Wangler, Junior Pierce and another inmate. However, another Latino inmate Enrique Morales comes into Oz and Pancamo makes him an offer he can’t refuse. Pancamo and Adebisi don’t wish to work with someone who is “loco”, so if Morales can have Hernandez whacked, he can be their new business partner. Morales has Bob Rebadow stab Hernandez in the neck overnight. Pancamo, Adebisi and Morales tests an undercover cop/inmate, Desmond Mobay a.k.a. John Basil. The first test they put him through is to see how much heroin he could snort in his nose.
  • Episode 4.4 "Works of Mercy" - Pancamo, Adebisi and Morales put another test for Mobay. In this test. Pancamo assaults Mobay to see how long he can take punches. The last and final test is for Mobay to kill someone. Mobay does this by pushing another undercover cop down an elevator. Adebisi and Morales were still suspicious of Mobay. Pancamo nominated for Mobay to join the operation.
  • Episode 4.5 "Grey Matter" - Pancamo is known as one of Martin Querns' trustees in Em City when Querns took over Emerald City.
  • Episode 4.7 "A Town with Pity" - Tobias Beecher comes over and approaches Pancamo into ordering one of his outside connections to kill Hank Schillinger because of Hank killing his son so Pancamo makes a deal. After Pancamo ordered the hit Beecher then has second thoughts on Hank's murder but is too late. Meanwhile, Don Zanghi is sent to the hole because of Mondo Browne hitting him after Zanghi called him the “N” word. Pancamo and Morales decide to confront Adebisi since everything is getting out of control. Adebisi decides to cheat Morales and Pancamo out of the drug trade. As a result, all the Italians and Latinos are sent to Unit B.

Season 4 Part II[]

  • Episode 4.10 "Conversions" - A new elderly inmate, Burr Redding arrives in Oz and leads the Homeboys. Pancamo and Morales offer him the share of the drug trade but Redding turns them down and starts a war with them.
  • Episode 4.11 "Revenge is Sweet" - In the previous episode, Pancamo and Morales set Redding up by Morales killing Bian Yixhue and they still plan to find ways to set him up as Redding didn't get charged for murder.
  • Episode 4.12 "Cuts Like A Knife" - Pancamo & Morales work with Supreme Allah to kill Burr Redding for the share of the drug trade, but then Supreme Allah gets stabbed in the visiting room by Tug Daniels.
  • Episode 4.13 "Blizzard of 01" - Burr Redding is ready to start the war with Pancamo and Morales, so the Homeboys and Jia Kenmin go to the gym ready for war but Hill tips off the guards about what is going to happen, then the S.O.R.T. breaks it up. In the next episode, McManus makes the truce come in.

Season 5[]

  • Episode 5.2 "Laws of Gravity" - Peter Schibetta is back in Emerald City. The FBI confirms that Gaetano Cincetta killed Hank Schillinger and he tells the FBI that Chucky Pancamo ordered him to kill him, which causes war between the Sicilians and Aryans. James Robson shanks Pancamo and is sent to the infirmary.
  • Episode 5.3 "Dream A Little, Dream of Me" - Schibetta tries to convince Kareem Said into joining forces against Vern Schillinger after he sees that Chucky is in the infirmary. But Said refuses to help Peter stating that "he would always be known as one of Adebisi's bitches". The Sicilians agree with Said and decide not to go after the Aryans unless Pancamo gives the word. Angry, Peter wanders off and has a run in with the Aryans. Peter tells them that they have lunch coming and that their conversation can wait. Schillinger tells Schibetta that " they don't wait for Wops" and calls him a prag. Schibetta then pulls out a knife and tries to take out the Aryans. However, the Aryans stop him and Schibetta is gangraped on the pool table. As a result, Schibetta is taken to the infirmary and back to the psych ward.
  • Episode 4.4 "Next Stop: Vanhalla" - Frank Urbano is a new inmate in Oz, Beecher makes a deal with Pancamo to get the Sicilians to protect a inmate named Adam Guenzel from getting raped by the Aryans so Pancamo accepts, so as Robson is about to rape Guenzel, Urbano with the other Sicilians jump in and fight the Aryans and Urbano is in the hole. Meanwhile the Homeboys take over the cafeteria.
  • Episode 5.8 "Impotience" - After Morales and Redding's relationship after Augustus nearly overdosing, Morales & Urbano talk about taking 60/40 in the drug trade, as long as Urbano kills Burr Redding, so as he is about to kill him, Augustus Hill gets in the way and kills him instead.

Season 6[]

  • Episode 6.1 "Dead Man Talking" - Pancamo is back from the infirmary and the Homeboys and The Sicilians start fighting each other.
  • Episode 6.2 "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil" - Schibetta is no longer in the psych ward and threatens to put a curse on him and his family, so O’Reily then tells Pancamo that Schibetta was going to curse him for not helping him from getting raped by Adebisi and the Aryans, so the Sicilians kill Schibetta. Pancamo sees Robson in the libary and tries to assault him for shanking him, but the altercation got stopped by C.O's.
  • Episode 6.3 "Sonata da Oz" - Pancamo is back to working in the kitchen with the other Sicilians. As long as he doesn't retaliate against the Aryan Brotherhood, Pancamo and his paisans can keep control of the cafeteria. This deal came about as a result of Pancamo getting into a fight with Wolfgang Cutler before.
  • Episode 6.4 "A Failure Without Communication" - Antonio Nappa is one of the spirited guest narrators in this episode. When Pancamo and Urbano see Robson in the gym as Cutler's prag, Pancamo and Urbano tell Robson if he kills Cutler he will leave him alone, so as a result Cutler hangs himself accidently as Robson tricked him into auterotic asphyxiation, but Pancamo and Urbano are also responsible for Cutler's death.
  • Episode 6.6 "A Day in Death" - With Enrique Morales murdered, The Latinos are out of the drug trade.
  • Episode 6.7 "Junkyard Dawgs" - Redding made a deal with Pancamo to slow down the Homeboys and stop them from dealing drugs in Em City by getting Poet's outside connection killed, but it's doesn't end when a new inmate Stanley Bukowski arrives in Em City and sells ganja brownies with the Homeboys and then Pancamo, Urbano and the rest of the Sicilians catch up to him and kill him.
  • Episode 6.8 "Exuent Omnes" - A new gay inmate Alonzo Torquemada approaches Pancamo into partnership of his new drug distribution of selling "Destiny" or "D-Tabs" and gives Pancamo free D-Tabs for Pancamo and the Sicilians to try.

Members[]

A constant influx of prisoners, as well as internal disputes and casualties keep the Sicilians membership fluctuating; Dino OrtolaniJoey D'AngeloFrank UrbanoSalvatore DeSanto, and Don Zanghi are some prominent dealers and soldiers of the gang. 

ACTIVE
DECEASED
INACTIVE


Leadership[]

Picture Name Seasons Status Overview
NSchibetta
Nino Schibetta 1 Deceased

Nino led the Italians from 1995 and was a Mob boss. Nino was killed by Simon Adebisi & Ryan O'Reily.

PSchibetta
Peter Schibetta 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 Deceased

Peter Schibetta was sent to Oz in 1998 for money laundering and took over leadership for the Italians until he was raped by Simon Adebisi. Peter was later murdered by Chucky Pancamo & Frank Urbano.

Antonio Nappa
Antonio Nappa 2, 3, 6 Deceased

After Adebisi raped Schibetta, Nappa comes to Oz and takes over leadership. Nappa was suffocated by Nat Ginzburg.

Chucky Pancamo image
Chucky Pancamo 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Active

Pancamo took over leadership after Nappa got killed.

Frank Urbano 2
Frank Urbano 5, 6 Active

Frank Urbano temporarily took over leadership of the Italians until Pancamo recovered from hospital. When Pancamo came back Urbano becomes Pancamo's lieutenant and 2nd in command.

Enforcements/dealers[]

Picture Name Seasons Status Overview
DOrtolani
Dino Ortolani 1, 6 Deceased

Ortolani was an enforcer for Nino in Oz. Ortolani was burnt to death by Johnny Post.

Joey D'Angelo 2
Joey D'Angelo 1 Inactive

Joey served as an enforcer for Nino in Oz. He is transferred out of Emerald City in episode 5.

Zanghi6
Don Zanghi 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Active

Zanghi was Chucky Pancamo's cellmate in Emerald City. Before Oz Zanghi was a pizza delivery boy.

Mario Seggio
Mario Seggio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Active

Seggio was a prominent soldier for Nino, Nappa, Chucky and Peter all through Oz.

Salvatore DeSanto
Salvatore DeSanto 1, 5 Deceased

DeSanto was another enforcer, he was poisoned to death with LSD by Poet on Burr Redding's orders.

PSchibetta5
Salvatore DeSanto 1, 5 Deceased

Schibetta was welcome back by the Italians until he was raped by The Aryans. Schibetta was killed by Chucky and Urbano.

Jenbro
Jenbro 1 Inactive

Jenbro was a bodyguard for Nino. He was transferred out of Emerald City in the fifth episode

Ottovino
Ottovino 1 Inactive

Ottovino was a bodyguard for Nino. He was transferred out of Emerald City in the fifth episode

Pellicano
Pellicano 1 Inactive

Pellicano was a bodyguard for Nino. He was transferred out of Emerald City in the fifth episode

Italian5a
Unnamed Italian #1 5, 6 Active

Background character with Chucky Pancamo & Don Zanghi.

Italian5b
Unnamed Italian #2 5, 6 Active

Background character with Chucky Pancamo & Don Zanghi.

Corrupt officials[]

Picture Name Seasons Status Overview
Burruano
Lenny Burrano 1, 2 Inactive

Burrano was a former CO and a detective who was on the payroll of Italian inmates

Murders by Italians[]

Victim

Perpetrator

Reason/cause

Year

2 Unnamed people The Mafia On orders from Nino Schibetta 1995
Mickey Dino Ortolani Shot to death. 1996
Chucky's girlfriend. Chucky Pancamo Dumped in a river. 1997
Emilio Sanchez Dino Ortolani Suffocated to death. 1997
Johnny Post Joey D'Angelo & 2 others Beaten and mutilated for killing Dino. 1997
Unnamed gangster Antonio Nappa Shot in the head. 1998
Malcolm Coyle The Italians For killing the Ciancimino family and to protect Augustus Hill 1999
Hank Schillinger Gaetano Cincetta Killed on orders from Beecher & Chucky 2000
Unnamed man Frank Urbano Shot in the back. 2002
Augustus Hill Frank Urbano Stabbed to death while Hill defended Redding. 2002
Peter Schibetta Chucky Pancamo & Frank Urbano For allegedly betraying the Sicilians. 2003
Stanley Bukowski Chucky Pancamo, Frank Urbano & Don Zanghi For competing against them in the drug trade. 2003
OZ Gangs

The Aryans - The Bikers - The Christians - The Gays - The Homeboys - The Irish - The Italians - The Latinos - The Muslims - The Others

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