Carlos Martinez

Carlos Martinez played by Carlos Leon is a Hispanic inmate on Oz sentenced to Life Without Parole in 1998 for two counts of murder. El Norte's main enforcer in Unit B, gen pop, Martinez exists mainly to commit several tasks for the Latinos outside of Emerald City. He eventually goes to solitary confinement where he dies to an infection in the air ducts. Carlos Leon is a personal trainer to the stars. ...

Season 4

Martinez first appears doing a life attempt on Latino inmate Miguel Alvarez on the orders of Carmen Guerra and Raoul "El Cid" Hernandez while in the hospital ward. Alvarez however escapes and El Cid angered orders all of their outside connections to put a hit on Alvarez if he is found. Shortly afterwards, new inmate Enrique Morales manipulates El Cid's death taking over El Norte, Oz's Latino gang. Later in the season when Morales loses money on a staff-inmate Basketball game, Martinez is ordered to slice the tendon of officer Dave Brass, the staff member with NBA potential who was catalyst in the staff's win. Martinez starts a fight only to get Brass' attention and then while on the floor slices Brass' tendon permanently destroying his chances to play in the NBA. Miguel Alvarez is a fictional character, played by American actor Kirk Acevedo, on the television show Oz. ... Carmen Chico Guerra is a Hispanic inmate on Oz played by Otto Sanchez. ... Raoul Hernandez is a Latino inmate on the HBO drama Oz. ... Enrique Morales played by David Zayas is one of the most powerful Latinos on Oz. ... Dave Brass is a Correctional Officer on the HBO drama Oz played by Blake Robbins. ...

Season 5

Carlos is again in Unit B where he carries out El Norte's orders. In the cafeteria, he starts a fight with inmate Omar White who made fun of Guerra for going into the Emerald City cage. Officer Brass in the meantime is looking for the details pretaining to who sliced his tendon and as he is looking in Unit B, Martinez douses him with a vile "cocktail" comprised of urine, vomit, fecal matter, and blood. The COs beat him to the point of needing medical attention and then throw him into solitary confinement. When Dr. Nathan comes to treat him, Officer Travis Smith refuses to allow him into the hospital without the consent of Warden Glynn. As Smith is ordered by Dr. Nathan to permit him into the hospital, Martinez begins fondling her on the check up and she then has a flashback to a rape attack and begins assaulting Martinez. In the hospital, Officer Murphy then interrogates Martinez further as he believes Martinez was in fact responsible for Brass' injury. Carlos then goes back into solitary confinement. Omar White is an African American inmate on the HBO drama Oz played by Michael Wright. ... Travis Smith is one of the correctional officers on the HBO Drama Oz played by Jerome Preston Bates. ... Warden Leo Glynn Leo Glynn (played by Ernie Hudson) is the warden of the Oswald state correctional facility on the HBO drama Oz. ... Sean Murphy is played by Robert Clohessy is an Irish American Correctional Officer on the HBO drama Oz. ...

Season 6

At the start of the season, Officer Claire Howell one of solitary's supervising officers makes sexual advances on several inmates and Martinez is one of her favorites. At the bi-annual solitary review, Howell claims that Martinez does not deserve to be released from solitary as she has her own agendas for keeping him as her personal sex toy. In solitary however, the air ducts become contaminated and Martinez then gets gravely ill. He is near death in the hospital and Officer Brass then interrogates him further. As he is about to die, a hateful nurse, Carol Grace suffocates him to death merely stating that she didn't here the code for him being nearly dead. Brass uses Martinez's death as an opportunity to get revenge on Morales who he feels is responsible for setting up the permanent damage to his achille's tendon. Claire Howell is played by Kristin Rohde and is a female Correctional Officer on the HBO Drama Oz. ...