Casemates prisoners today.

Mr. Jackey Beavers, co-author of the million-selling Supremes hit "Someday We'll Be Together'', walked away from showbusiness and became a pastor.

He then served for eight years as executive assistant to the governor of Georgia, in charge of minority affairs, which involved battling Ku Klux Klan racists.

He is now a chaplain with Georgia's corrections department. Mr. Glen Caines, of Bermuda's Prison Fellowship, said Mr. Beavers would be singing and speaking to prisoners in the exercise yard.

"What he's doing is very similar to what we're doing in Bermuda. The parallells are amazing. We're anticipating him having a meeting with certain members of the prison administration.'' Mr. Caines said Mr. Beavers believed in using a spiritual approach to achieve a change in criminals' lives, so they could return to society with changed motivation and self-confidence.

Mr. Beavers is also to speak to Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship members at the Palm Reef Hotel on Saturday evening.

"Jackey is doing something about the prison problem in Georgia,'' said a FGBMF spokesman. "Perhaps Bermuda can learn something from him.''