“We were all rushing trying to get here this morning,” said Natasha Purcell, who has one book each for her four children, ages 11, 8, and 22 months. “Half of us didn’t even eat breakfast.”

Purcell, 27, is serving six years for delivery of a controlled dangerous substance.

Sarah Klotz, 22, serving five years for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, anxiously checks out two books: Aladdin and Snow White.

“You think boys will be offended if I give them a pink book?” she asks. “But they love these stories and they have almost all the Disney movies.”

Another inmate assures her: “I don’t think it matters as long as it’s coming from you.”

Klotz has two sons, ages 4 and 6. She said that since she came to prison in early February, the boys have been staying with her mother.

“They’re amazing little boys,” Klotz said. “Now, any time they want to hear my voice, they can with this CD.”

She reads from the Disney books, concluding her reading with “I’ll be home in seven months.”

Patrice Wooden shoots a Polaroid picture of each woman standing in front of a poster of angels. She then sits them down and shows how to read the books and work the tape player.

Hendrix, 36, of Chelsea, reads “E-Mail From God for Teens,” an advice book by Claire and Curt Cloninger, for her 12-year-old son.

“It’s got some good stuff in it, it made me cry,” says Hendrix, who is serving five years, 15 months, for driving under the influence.

She reads a passage about getting through hard times.

“’When something bad happens, you will cry, but I will love you through the pain,’” she reads, concluding her message with “I will see you soon.”

After turning off the tape, she lets the tears come. “He’s my buddy, I’m telling you.”

The Soroptomists got involved with Mother’s Touch when program founder Suzanne Edmondson spoke at a meeting about 10 years ago, Spradling said. Edmondson developed the program “Tales of the Rising Moon,” in which Eddie Warrior inmates recorded stories, songs and messages for their children.