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Choir offers prisoners opportunity for some positive praise
Inmates use musical talents as an avenue for change and to minister to others
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Chaplain Susan Bishop, right, directs the Arrendale State Prison choir Sunday morning during a worship service at Antioch Baptist Church in Gainesville. - photo by JOSHUA L. JONES
“My parents drugged me … to church.” Darlene Middleton sang those words with power and emotion Sunday morning to a packed audience including Georgia’s governor at Antioch Baptist Church in Gainesville. The congregation responded with applause and “Amens!”