AR-News: (KS - US) Inmates donate $4,000 to build animal shelter

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 Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:59 AM
 Inmates donate $4000 to build animal shelter


Hutchinson, Kansas-AP -- Some prison inmates have given a boost to a planned 
animal shelter in south-central Kansas. 

Things were looking a bit bleak for the proposed shelter in Hutchinson. In 
the first month of a fund-raising drive, only a few hundred dollars trickled in. 

Then inmates of the Hutchinson Correction Facility got involved, thanks to a 
warden who's an animal lover. Prison staff members organized a pizza sale -- 
which raised four-thousand dollars. 

Prison administrator Wayne Brawner called the inmates' response "pretty good 
for a bunch of guys who make a dollar-five a day." 

Organizers hope that by fall, they'll have about 200-thousand dollars for the 
shelter, which will be built on land donated by the prison. 

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