Mondo Browne

<!-- Deleted image removed: -->Raymond "Mondo" Browne, played by Gano Grills, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series Oz.

Character overview

Prisoner #00B563. Convicted April 10, 2000 - First degree murder. Sentence: 27 years, eligible for parole in 11.

A member of the "Homeboys" gang, he is in prison for murdering a white man, skinning him, and dismembering him, and is let in Emerald City when inmate Simon Adebisi is in charge. Browne is later killed by Chris Keller as Em City becomes overwhelmingly black.

Season 4 Part I

Mondo and Leroy Tidd are shown attacking Bruno Goergen, a bigoted and corrupt police officer serving time in Oz for murder. Browne is later transferred to Em City as one of the many black inmates hand selected by Adebisi and Martin Querns. In Em City, Browne and Tidd first attempt to rape Cyril O'Reily, but he fights back, and Adebisi and Cyril's older brother, Ryan, warn them not to try it again.

As Em City lets in more black inmates, life gets easier for Browne. He and the other inmates are allowed unlimited drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and "prags" (sex slaves) as long as they keep violent incidents down. Because all the guards who are transferred in are also black, the Homeboys have complete control Em City. Browne then has sex with white inmate Tobias Beecher which angers Beecher's lover, Chris Keller.

Later, Italian inmate Don Zanghi calls Browne an ethnic slur in an argument and Browne hits him. Zanghi is...
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