Improved behavior was rewarded with a butterfly pin. Fundamentally, you've got to believe that there's some good in everybody, if you can get to it. But it's your lack, if you can't. I really feel that it's my lack when I fail and am unable to reach somebody. Of course, I know I can't reach everybody.
Nobody can reach everybody.
It takes time and patience and a fundamental belief that there is good in people. But the things some of these people had gone through - all kinds of hell. When McCubbin first arrived at the prison, there was no place for the women to worship. In short order, the prisoners were allowed to dress up the basement underneath the stage of the prison's auditorium for services. With the help of the state's first lady Mrs. Dan Moore, McCubbin sought donations from women's groups across the state.