One inmate grateful that the mass is not “jumpy” and “social.” She wants religion, quiet, and worship. Ministers bring rosaries, scapulars, holy books. Priests gain converts to the true Faith, baptize and confirm.
Catholic News Service: Glinting razor wire tops the fence that separates the women serving time at Lee Arrendale State Prison in Alto from the rest of the world.
Located in a rural Habersham County landscape of cow pastures, cemeteries and country churches, the prison is for adult and juvenile female felons.
Each week, Paul Caruso of St. Joseph Cafasso Prison Ministries of St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Alpharetta, makes the long drive from Atlanta to the prison.
Joining Caruso are volunteers from several parishes, along with Deacon Bernie Casey and retired priests Msgr. Bill Hoffman of Roswell and Father Thad Rudd of Cleveland.
For many of the prisoners attending the weekly Tuesday evening service, this encounter with the Catholic Church is their only contact with the outside world. Read more here.
