Marion County Jail II inmates pen their thanks to wounded soldiers

By 14 December 2008. Filed in News & Commentary.

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The men, wearing standard-issue orange, wrote to injured soldiers to thank them for protecting their freedom. Several spoke of the irony.

But none dwelled on it.

In the regimented life of the medium-security Marion County Jail II, a privately run facility, Thursday’s program offered an hour or more of escape as the inmates wrote cards for wounded soldiers and veterans at a military hospital.

Many of the 30 or so who gathered in the chapel had asked to take part.

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