W. Va. inmates pitch in to help girl with cancer

(AP)  MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The box carried into 6-year-old Mailyn Chandler's hospital room was painted pink on the outside, lined inside with construction paper inside and crammed with treats - crayons, colored pencils, a stuffed rabbit and a paper scroll that unfurled into a handmade check for $1,029.30.


Amy Chandler gazed in shock at the enclosed photograph showing the strangers who cared so much about her daughter's four-year battle with leukemia: Gathered around a fundraising table were inmates at the Mount Olive Correction Complex near Montgomery, West Virginia's only maximum-security state prison.  More   PrisonerPal.com   True Crime Today  Magazine Subscriptions for Prisoners since 1975