Grace Lewis
ReporterGrace Lewis is a senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a member of the journalism class that produced the series Nebraska Behind Bars.
Grace is a native of Hooper, Nebraska.
For questions about this story, contact Prof. Chris Graves at this email.
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![The 2-year-old son of James Price and Samantha Cedillo chases a red soccer ball at his Iowa home on April 9, 2025. The child was conceived while his father, Price, was an inmate at the Omaha Correctional Center and his mother, Cedillo, worked as a programs coordinator there. “I believe [my son] is a big part of my giving back to the world,” Price told a journalist.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d68d52d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1763x982+0+0/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2F44%2F4e7d12f748c5a7e7ebe34d6b28e3%2Ffifth.jpg)
A female program director and a man convicted of murder fell in love and conceived a child inside an Omaha prison. Now they're trying to successfully co-parent after the state moved the father west.
![The 2-year-old son of James Price and Samantha Cedillo chases a red soccer ball at his Iowa home on April 9, 2025. The child was conceived while his father, Price, was an inmate at the Omaha Correctional Center and his mother, Cedillo, worked as a programs coordinator there. “I believe [my son] is a big part of my giving back to the world,” Price told a journalist.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/21cbe51/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1763x982+0+0/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2F44%2F4e7d12f748c5a7e7ebe34d6b28e3%2Ffifth.jpg)