Students create book drive for jail
The Kansan
Elise Jantz, a senior at Newton High School this year, envisions jail as a claustrophobic place, with those inside needing a mental break from that now and then.
Jantz, and members of the National Honor Society, delivered tools for that mental break on Good Friday boxes of books for the Harvey County Detention Center Library. There were more than 220 books in those boxes, collected over the course of a few weeks.
She got the idea from her sister, who donates to a jail in her area. We were looking for a group service project at that time, and I thought this one would be a good one for us to do, Jantz said.