At correctional facility, a small but dedicated group of volunteers and inmates worship together

The exterior of the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women is pictured in this July 25 photo. Five laywomen from St. Aloysius Church in Pewee Valley, Ky., host a communion service for the inmates at the facility on Friday mornings. (Record Photo by Olivia Castlen)
PEWEE VALLEY, Ky. — Sitting at the keyboard in a white T-shirt and gray athletic shorts, her crimped, dirty-blonde hair cascades down to her waist. From the young woman’s small frame, a soulful soprano voice breaks forth, praising God through an ‘80s song she remembers listening to a decade back.

“Is your past a memory that binds you?” she sings. “There is a Savior and He’s forgiven you.”