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With an average of 16 people a weekend for five years, the Magdalene House has provided more than 4,000 comfortable and free nights for those who visit inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution.
“And there have been many nights when we have had 14 visitors. That’s as many as the fire marshal allows,” said the Rev. John Martin of Holy Cross Episcopal Church.
The residence at 206 Columbia St. is owned by the Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Washington Street. As a lay minister there in 2004, Martin traveled to a similar hostelry at the federal jail at Alderson, W.Va., and has modeled the Magdalene House after that home.
Ordained in 2009, Martin continues to oversee the home away from home for the family and friends of federal inmates.
Most visitors are females: mothers, wives, daughters, significant others, with an occasional brother or uncle thrown in.
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http://times-news.com/local/x1939353356/Magdalene-House-a-home-away-from-home-for-visitors-of-federal-inmates
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