List of Prison Break Minor Characters - Fox River Characters - Prisoners

Prisoners

• David Apolskis (played by Lane Garrison) first appears in ninth episode of the first season as a prisoner of Fox River. It is later revealed that he was arrested after swiping a T206 Honus Wagner Baseball card and is charged with grand larceny. T-Bag gives him the nickname "Tweener" due to his affinity for African American culture, and harasses him until Michael Scofield intervenes. Tweener returns in "And Then There Were 7", doing a favor for Michael. In later episodes, however, Tweener becomes an obstacle to Michael and the rest of the escape team after he is coerced by Brad Bellick to become an informant. In "J-Cat", he fails to give good information and is put in a cell with a large man called "Avocado" who sexually abuses him. A desperate Tweener slashes his penis with a razorblade. Knowing that Avocado will soon recover, Michael takes pity on Tweener and tells him of the escape. Tweener in turn tells Bellick, and the plan is nearly derailed. Knowing of his betrayal, Michael forces Tweener to go his own way in the season finale.

In season 2, Tweener initially has a separate subplot. After getting to St. Louis, he appears in "Otis" and hitches a ride to Utah with a college girl named Debra Jean Belle (Kristin Malko). The two become intimate in "First Down", but she learns of his fugitive status in the next episode. The two characters go separate ways, though she allows him to steal her car, reporting it stolen later. In the same episode, Tweener re-unites with the other main characters and helps them dig for Westmoreland's $5 million before he is captured by FBI Agent Mahone in “Subdivision”. In his final appearance on the show in “Buried”, Tweener denies a transfer to a better prison and refuses to give away Scofield's location, instead misleading the police. In his last scene, Mahone takes Tweener to a side road and guns him down in cold blood, planting a gun on him to give the appearance of a struggle. Tweener is the second member of the Fox River Eight to be taken down by the authorities.

• Charles Westmoreland (played by Muse Watson) is one of the key supporting characters in the first season. He is introduced as Fox River's longest-serving inmate (thirty-two years) and he tells Scofield that he has sixty more years left on his sentence. An important plot function of Westmoreland is that he is believed to be the airline hijacker D. B. Cooper, which he repeatedly denied. In the first half of the season, he is often shown with a tabby cat named Marilyn that he gets to keep due to a grandfather clause in the prison's policy. Portrayed as mild-mannered and quiet, he tries to stay out of other people’s business. Westmoreland plays an important role in “The Old Head”, in which Captain Bellick murders Marilyn after Westmoreland refuses to help him identify the convict who killed a guard in the previous episode. Westmoreland retaliates by starting a fire in the guards' break room, making it seem like Bellick's negligence caused the fire. He is again prominent in the plot in “And Then There Were 7”, when his character motivation changes and he wants to escape in order to visit his terminally-ill daughter. In the episode, he confirms that he was indeed DB Cooper.

Following this, Westmoreland joins Michael Scofield's escape team and participates in the first failed escape attempt in “End of the Tunnel”. Westmoreland has a more minor role in most late season 1 episodes, but appears prominently in “Bluff”. In addition, a subplot sees him building a bond with fellow escapee C-Note. Westmoreland is later fatally wounded while subduing Bellick when he discovers the escape hole in the guards' room. During the escape, he collapses from blood loss, telling Michael to go on without him and making him promise to visit his daughter and revealing the location of the Cooper money. He is found dead by Warden Pope in the season finale. Westmoreland re-appears, along with Marilyn, in season 4, in a dream sequence in Michael's head, helping him discover Scylla's true nature.

• Charles "Haywire" Patoshik (played by Silas Weir Mitchell) is a prisoner at Fox River's Psych Ward. He has schizoaffective disorder with bipolar tendencies, and a fear of crowds. He is temporarily Michael's cellmate, becoming obsessed with his tattoos. Michael fakes an assault and gets him sent back to the psych ward. 13 episodes later, Michael seeks Haywire's help to remember a part of the tattoo. Michael is forced to include him in the escape after he finds out about the plan, but soon abandons him. Haywire then escapes on his own on a stolen bicycle. In season 2, he is mostly used as comic relief. His plot line focuses on him building a raft to go to Holland. Haywire is later trapped by police up a silo and convinced by Mahone to commit suicide by jumping to his death. He is the third member of the Fox River Eight to be taken down by the authorities. In a third season episode, he re-appears as a hallucination to Mahone.

• Gus Fiorello (played by Peter J. Reineman) is Abruzzi's right-hand man at Fox River. Falzone later promotes him, prompting Abruzzi to take revenge by grinding a broken light bulb into Gus' eye. When Abruzzi's prison status is restored, he turns Gus into an outcast.

• Manche Sanchez (played by Joseph Nunez) is Sucre's cousin, and is incarcerated at the same prison. Manche works in the laundry and becomes invaluable to the escape team when they have to reformulate their escape-plan; Sucre makes Manche a member of the team after he helps them frame C.O. Geary. Manche is captured on the night of the escape after his weight causes the cable wire used to climb over the wall to break. He later agrees to reveal Sucre’s whereabouts in exchange for a transfer to a minimum security prison.

• "Avocado" Balz-Johnson (played by Daniel Allar) is an inmate who is assigned as Tweener's cellmate and repeatedly rapes him until Tweener takes revenge by slicing his genitals with a razor blade. After Bellick himself is imprisoned in season 2, Avocado becomes his cellmate.

• Seth "Cherry" Hoffner (played by Blaine Hogan) is a young inmate who shares a cell with T-Bag. He pleads with Michael to help him, before hanging himself over the rail of the first tier in A wing.

• Christopher Trokey (played by Robert Michael Vieau) is an inmate who was a friend of T-Bags until T-Bag asked Seth Hoffner to report Trokey as the person who murdered C.O Robert 'Bob' Hudson. T-Bag hid the murder weapon under Trokey's bed and when the guards found it they took him to the SHU.

• Trumpets (played by Anthony Fleming) is C-Note's right hand man in his black gang in Fox River. Bad blood arises between him and C-Note when the latter joins the PI crew, and after a violent fight, Trumpets issues a death mark on his head. In season 2, when Bellick is incarcerated and beaten by the inmates, Trumpets coldly tells him to expect more attacks.

• Trumpets Right-hand Man (played by David Dino Wells Jr) is Trumpets cell mate and friend.

• Jason "Maytag" Buchanon (played by Brian Hamman) was T-Bag's cellmate until he was killed in the race riots.

• Banks (played by Lester "Rasta" Speight) is the leader of another black gang at Fox River consisting of himself and four others. When Bellick is incarcerated at Fox River, he demands Bellick's dessert in exchange for protecting him from other inmates. However, when Bellick gives him the dessert, he demands four more for his friends. Bellick then beats him with a sock full of batteries. He and his gang later take revenge by beating up Bellick at night.

• Turk (played by John Turk) is an inmate with an arm bracelet hired by Kellerman to kill Lincoln. During "Riots, Drills and the Devil" he leads Lincoln to an out-of-the-way area under the impression that he is taking him to his brother, and tries to kill him. Lincoln, however, manages to throw Turk off a ledge, Turk lands hard on his back, and dies from his injuries shortly afterward.

• Stroker (played by Kwame Amoaku) is an inmate who was in the sickbay at the time of the riot in "Riots, Drills and the Devil". When the inmates in the sickbay hear of the riot, he leads them in starting their own riot. They capture Rizzo Green and attempt to rape Sara Tancredi, but she makes it into the office. Stroker breaks part of the glass and tries to get her, but she is rescued by Michael. They follow them, and eventually he finds them. He fights Michael to try to get to Sara, but is beaten. He and others continue to follow them until they reach the exit. After Sara escapes, a sniper fires at Michael. Michael ducks, and Stroker, who was behind him, is hit in the chest and dies. Unlike most of the other inmates, he does not appear to be racist, as he leads black and white inmates after Sara and Michael.

• Theo (played by Brad Fleischer) was in the sickbay at the time of "Riots, Drills and the Devil". He is mentioned to have a recently fixed knee, held in place by nuts and bolts. He joins them in their own riot. He follows Stroker and others as they go after Michael and Sara. He at one point opens a tile in the ceiling and climbs through, but is kicked back down by Michael. When Stroker finds Michael and Sara and attacks Michael, he moves to help. However, Sara kicks him in his recently repaired knee, breaking it, and then kicks him away, giving him major injuries. It is unknown whether or not he survives these.