Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom, a resident on Cell Block C, at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility. So far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together, until a new district attorney discovers the truth and Perry is removed from the facility and put into a foster home. When Perry moves to the "outside" world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited with his mom, he goes on a quest for answers about...

Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.

Kiandra Watanaboneset reluctantly takes charge when she, her brothers Enu and Edwy, and some young friends are captured by Enforcers and sent to a prison on the planet Zacadi.