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| Kansas Inmates Pitch in for Needy Kids |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/03/2003 |
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Some of Santa's helpers wear prison stripes. Inmates at the Ellsworth Correctional Facility in Kansas are helping to make the holidays a little brighter for needy kids. The inmates are repairing and restoring old bikes for youngsters whose families can't afford to buy them. Prison officials say by Christmas Eve, the inmates will have rebuilt about 275 bikes. Since 1999, more than 500 used bicycles have been given makeovers. The bikes are donated to service and nonprofit groups for distribution to the kids. And at the Osborn Correctional Institution in Somers, Connecticut, about a dozen inmates use scraps of fabric from the prison's clothing shop to make rag dolls for needy children. They are learning to sew for a program that makes mattresses and other items for prisons, hotels and hospitals. With the leftover material, they make the dolls. 'We have no use for the scraps,' said Michael A. Kiczuk, industries supervisor. |
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