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| Inmates run for cancer research |
| By Newsday |
| Published: 11/29/2004 |
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As thousands of New York marathon runners ascended hills and crossed rivers Nov. 7, winding their way through cheering crowds in the five boroughs, a race of a very different kind was shaping up behind the walls of an upstate maximum security prison. Thirty inmates at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility in Ulster County (N.Y.) were preparing to run, or walk, 26.2 miles of their own -- 76.5 monotonous laps around the cement and dirt perimeter of the prison's exercise yard. For men who spend most of their days locked in small cells, there was satisfaction in finishing the race, and even more in raising an estimated $5,000, with other prison events, for a children's cancer fund. Finishing is a goal for most of the runners, along with raising money for Tomorrows Children's Fund, which provides help to the pediatric cancer unit at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey. |
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