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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.
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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/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)