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November 02, 2011

AP: Utah churches, prison ministries reach behind bars

by Sarah Israelsen-Hartley
The Associated Press

HEBER, Utah (AP) - The first time Debra Brown prayed she knelt down on a cement floor in a jail cell, clumsily folded her arms and copied the words of her roommate who daily prayed for her children, grandchildren and God's forgiveness.

The first of what would be many prayers in the Wasatch County Jail was done a bit grudgingly, Brown admits, because her roommate Cheryl Adams was so pleasantly insistent.

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