Caputo finds difficulty in his new role as warden after the new staff and inmates settle in. The pre-existing inmates are rallied back into camp while Alex and Whitehill stay back to resolve a rather big problem. Chapman tries to prove top dog in the overcrowded prison, Red isn't happy with her new work schedule, and Crazy Eyes finds a new love interest.

The mothers in the prison celebrate mothers day with their children. A new counselor is hired and that threatens Healy. Alex returns in bad shape. Crazy Eyes has trouble grasping what happened to Vee. Daya struggles with her lies about her baby. Nichols fights with her inner addict.

Upon his return from serving a ten-year sentence in prison, reformed gang leader, S. Lance Ingram, struggles to adapt to a changed Harlem. Unable to use the technological skills he acquired in jail, Lance is forced to accept a position delivering meals for a local food bank. It is here that he befriends Ms. Maddy, 75, a past beauty with a irreverent and hardened shell to whom he delivers dinners. Through her, Lance finds hope, relearning the joys of life and living despite the outwardly bedeviled society in which they find themselves.

A runaway girl, Max McLean, adventures into the forest with a young man named Ish who helps her find meaning in her boyfriend's suicide.

A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate back into civilian life.