ANGOLA - Angola Prison hosted its first Daddy Daughter Dance ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, giving many fathers a chance to interact with their daughters for the first time.

The event, created by God Behind Bars in partnership with leadership at Angola, aimed to create an experience based on dignity, connection and restoration with the fathers gifting the daughters with flowers, Bibles and handwritten letters.

Fathers wore custom-designed Amor Suits as they welcomed their daughters into a ballroom transformed from a classroom within the prison.

"I watched a group of men stand with pride and dignity, shedding every label the world had ever put on them. For one night, they were not inmates. They were Dad," founder of God Behind Bars, Jake Bodine said.

Families shared Thanksgiving mea

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