Date: 12-13-2024
"Higher end" toothpaste, pens, notebooks, envelopes, candy and other treats brighten the lives of the incarcerated |
From South Carolina Daily Gazette:
COLUMBIA — Every year Lacy Neaderheiser was in prison, she looked forward to receiving a holiday gift bag.
So, as she drove up to Columbia’s NewSpring Baptist Church on Tuesday morning to help pack the bags, she started to get emotional. She was happy to be on the other side of the razor wire but sad for the people she left behind when she got out nine months ago.
“I know how much these bags mean to people still behind the wall,” said Neaderheiser, who was incarcerated for 10 years on drug charges.
This was the 48th year volunteers from the South Carolina Baptist Convention gathered to stuff donated items into baggies for the state’s 17,000 inmates.
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