FOLSOM – About 70 Folsom State Prison inmates pitched in to help assemble thousands of school supply kits for low-income California students.
An Oakland nonprofit group called K to College organized the campaign last year to supply poor kids in San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa counties with $65 worth of free school supplies.
The minimum-custody prisoners formed an assembly line to pack tote bags with pencils, staplers, highlighters and other supplies at the prison’s Modular Building Enterprise facility. Cards indicating the number of each supply per kit were taped onto each table.
Participating inmates will receive a school supply kit to give to their children.