A group of nonviolent offenders are having an Easter to remember after they were bailed out just hours before the holiday.

He recalled hearing over the intercom, "Hey, pack it up, you're going home." He was in disbelief by the midnight notice.

"I came back down, and I hit the little intercom and said, 'Are y'all sure you're calling me,'" he said.

The South Carolina resident is one of 23 people, all nonviolent and mostly first-time offenders, to be bailed out by the a program through the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church partnered with rapper T.I. and VH1's "Love and Hip Hop" personality Scrapp Deleon.

source: fox5dc.com