Program lets jailed moms read to their kids for holidays

Deborah Scott gave the woman sitting across the card table a quiet pep talk about recording a storybook. “If you make a mistake, don’t worry about it,” Scott told DaShaundra Lewis in the jail gymnasium. “Just kinda laugh it off. If you were at home, you’d just keep going, right?” After a few more instructions, Lewis, a 29-year-old prisoner from Columbus, recorded a personal message to her 3-year-old daughter and then read her God Must Really Love ... Colors.