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DENVER (AP) — A 10-year-old girl in Canon City has an unusual hobby — decorating inmates’ gravesites.
Jeweleen Reiter says she felt guilty when she saw forlorn markers in a section for prisoners at Canon City’s Greenwood Cemetery.
She tells KUSA-TV (http://on9news.tv/1x6eikd ) that even people who committed crimes deserve to be remembered. She says their cemetery “should be a happy place.”
She brings artificial flowers and other decorations to the markers. She says she her favorite grave to decorate is that of Joe Arridy.
Arridy was a mentally disabled man wrongfully executed in 1939 for a rape and murder he didn’t commit. He was pardoned by former Gov. Bill Ritter in 2011.
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Information from: KUSA-TV, http://www.9news.com
