The High-Stakes Gamble of Prison Break Season 3: Breaking Out of Sona

The season's plot is driven by , the shadowy organization that orchestrated the series' central conspiracy.

Season 3 begins immediately after the explosive events of the Season 2 finale. Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), through a series of self-sacrificing maneuvers, is incarcerated in the Penitenciaría Federal de Sona, located in Panama. Unlike Fox River, Sona is a lawless wasteland. Following a bloody riot a year prior, the guards abandoned the inside of the prison entirely. They only patrol the perimeter, leaving the inmates to establish their own brutal micro-society.