Funds still needed for jail chapel

Rhonda Pickett of the Mobile Press Register writes that Mobile Couinty Metro Jail Chaplain Charles Fail is trying to raise the $160,000 needed to renovate exisiting space into a chapel for inmates:

Right now the chaplains and the volunteers who work with the jail's ministry have to share space with the jail's maintenance department, which is slated to eventually take over the office area the chaplains now occupy, Fail said.

Those plans show the nearly 2,600-square-foot chapel would include an open seating area with a raised section in the front, an inmate restroom, an office for visiting ministers, office space for the three staff chaplains, a room for volunteers with a kitchenette and a storage closet. There will be two main entrances to the chapel, the plans show.

"We've got to have space for more services," Fail said. "There are several areas of the jail that we haven't gotten to yet to provide religious services. We need the chapel. The whole Mobile community needs the chapel."