Show Inmates n a e s Help e. e By Dan Staff Writer DRAPER Inmates of the Utah State Prisons Prison's Lone Peak facility sickened by the events in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and Washington DC D.C. expressed their patriotism with an impromptu donation drive to raise money for the American Red Cross This help some say may maybe be beneficial to the inmates as well Dozens of inmates many of whom work for only 40 cents per hour lined the counters of the officers' officers station filling out money transfer slips and exchanging words of sorrow and compassion for the victims and their families back east I wanted to do some- some thing-anything thing I could to help in some way explains Roy OConner an inmate of 18 years And since I couldn't be bethere bethere f there to help in person I thought perhaps what little financial aid I Ik k could send would do some good f The Th man eman b behind e hi n d th the e d donation dona- dona ona- ona tion drive was inmate Jose Gallegos As the nations nation's hearts sank with the twin towers of Manhattan Gallegos' Gallegos heart was consumed with the need to help After watching the attack on the World Trade Center over and over again my heart continued continued continued con con- to soften he said Soften to the point that tears formed I knew right away that I had to do something to help but what I didn't know As he asked himself what a prison inmate can do to help his fellow man from behind bars he remembered hearing of a prison somewhere where the inmates had hada a donation drive within their own ranks to raise money for the disaster disaster disaster ter relief This he felt was the answer He decided to take his idea to Nola Phillips Deputy Warden of the Lone Peak facility It would be an opportunity opportunity opportunity for the inmates to express their heartfelt concerns for those who have lost their families whereby giving them the inmates the opportunity to be a part of the relief so desperately needed she said Before Phillips had a chance to even consider Gallegos' Gallegos request however word had spread throughout the facility of the fundraising fundraising fundraising fund- fund raising efforts Inmates by the dozens converged on the officers' officers station V wt 7 h H ro G A. 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