About four years ago, Lori Hayter scoped out the empty front lobby of Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility (WHV) in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She, a volunteer, and Denise Harris, a Prison Fellowship® field director, had arrived at the facility with Prison Fellowship Academy® curriculum in hand.
It was Lori's first time doing something like this. She wondered who else might be joining them, since the curriculum indicated they would have some helpers. "So, who are the other volunteers?" she asked in earnest.
"It's the women," Denise replied, speaking of the prisoners. "The women are the volunteers."
Looking back, Lori says, "I sort of had an idea what I was getting into. But I had so much to learn."
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