ST. MARTIN PARISH, La. (KLFY) -- A new live-streaming church project allows priests, chaplains and other spiritual advisors to deliver services to all the inmates at the St. Martin Parish Correctional Center.

Warden Robley Picard said the inmates are enjoying it.

"It's all week and on Sundays. They don't have to go anywhere. It's on the tv in their dorms, so it's convenient for everyone," Picard said.

A donation from Pastor Jacob Aranza, of Our Saviors Church in Lafayette, helped make the project possible.

It offers inmates the opportunity to develop a spiritual foundation during their incarceration for rehabilitation as they transition out. The speaker will be live streamed from the station straight to the eight dorms in the jail reaching all 186 inmates.

Picard said the previous program had in-person services which made it a safety hazard moving inmates around.

"Now, we don't have to move them at all. It streams directly to the to the dorms. So further increasing the security in the facility," Picard said.

St. Martin Parish Sheriff Becket Breaux said this program is one more example of what the agency does to prepare inmates with the necessary tools for a successful future in society.

"Whether it be counseling or, you know, church services. Surely you know, everybody needs to find God. That's what we believe here," the sheriff said.

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