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Utah prison progam lets inmates record books for their children
By sltrib.com- Jennifer Dobner
Published: 12/29/2014

Draper » Amid the holiday cards and the boxes of gifts delivered to households across Utah this season were some extra special packages bearing the return address of the Utah State Prison.

The gifts inside: CD recordings of holiday books and other beloved children’s classics read aloud by the incarcerated women who are away from their kids for far more than just the 12 days of Christmas.

"Hi Aston, this book is for you. … Merry Christmas!" Maria King reads into the digital recorder’s microphone before launching into a reading of the Audrey Wood book, "The Napping House" about a sleepy grandmother who’s joined in bed by a sleepy grandson, family pets and a mouse and a menagerie of other dozing guests.

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