Dayton Moore entered the ECF Spiritual Life Center and shook hands with the congregation along the way toward a podium embellished with a Kansas City Royals crown in his honor.
The general manager of the Royals, though, never stepped up on the stage for his speaking engagement Wednesday in the building seasonably adorned with special lighting, wreaths and Christmas trees.
Instead, he simply walked around the front of the room, essentially among the population within ECF: the Ellsworth Correctional Facility.
The “high-medium” security institution is one notch below maximum, warden Martin Sauers said, and it houses men convicted of murder and rape as well as lesser crimes.