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Three state Department of Public Safety officials will be locked up and prison inmates will come outside to discuss their religious beliefs in a cooperative effort to support the prison chaplaincy program. Jail-a-thon
Friday to spread
inmates’ good newsStar-Bulletin staff
The Good News Jail & Prison Ministry will sponsor a fund-raising Jail-a-thon from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at the Ward Warehouse stage area.
Donations will be sought to bail celebrity prisoners out from behind bars.
The participants will include Public Safety Department officials Ed Shimoda, administrator of the institutions division; Sidney Hayashida, deputy director of law enforcement; and Bruce Spencer, coordinator of program services and volunteers. Legislators, business people and church pastors will also do time.
About 10 Waiawa Correctional Center inmates will participate by giving testimony about their beliefs.
Music will be provided by entertainers Randy and Gay Hong, Dick Jensen, Cheryl "Kumie" Koide, Jarren Lea and Roy Yamamoto.
The Good News Ministry supports five chaplains in the prison system. They help to train and facilitate visits to prisoners by representatives of all religions.
The organization administers monthly video conference calls with Hawaii inmates who have been sent to facilities in Minnesota, Oklahoma and Arizona.