10-year-old brings color to inmates graves USA Today NetworkAnastasiya Bolton, KUSA 8:18 p.m. CST December 25, 2014 Its a sunny, windy, warm day in Canon City, Colorado. The best kind for Jeweleen Reiter and what she likes to do. 635551086140470143-Still1225-00006 (Photo: Andy Buck, KUSA) CONNECT 44 TWEET 2 LINKEDIN COMMENT EMAIL MORE CANON CITY, Colo. – Its a sunny, windy, warm day in Canon City, Colo. The best kind for Jeweleen Reiter and what she likes to do. I like to go to the cemetery, says 10-year-old Reiter. My mom took me there, she showed me the prisoners, and I guess I felt bad. I like cemeteries, it makes me think of lives. She knows her hobby of visiting the cemetery might be called weird, but I feel like they need help, she says. Im thinking about how Im making them happier. Reiter tells KUSA9 that her favorite part of Canon Citys Greenwood Cemetery is the Department of Corrections section. Inmates from nearby prisons are buried here, their graves are as grim as some of their lives may have been. All the graves are marked with metal rusted markers, and at least half dont have names. These people, they were people like us, except for they did wrong and yeah, they did wrong so of course theyre going to be punished, I dont think they should get this much of punishment, Reiter says. About a year ago, Reiter decided to bring some happiness to the inmates by decorating their graves with artificial flowers. It should be a happy place, Reiter says. Color is what we need. I think everyone deserves a little bit of happiness. But of all the graves, Reiter comes to see the only one with a marble headstone, that of Joe Arridy. Arridy was a mentally disabled man wrongfully executed in 1939 for a rape and murder he didnt commit. Governor Bill Ritter pardoned him in 2011. He was innocent. He didnt kill who they said he did. Reiter says she identifies with Arridy, that theyre kindred spirits perhaps. 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial color on the gravesites of the DOC inmates buried at Canon City’s historic Greenwood Cemetery. These people, they were people like us, except for they did wrong and yeah, they did wrong so of course theyre going to be punished, I dont think they should get this much of punishment, Reiter said. (Photo: Andy Buck, KUSA) Fullscreen 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial 10-year-old Jeweleen Reiter is helping place artificial
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