Inmates collect money to help family of dead children

(Hinton-AP) -- Some inmates at a Hinton prison have collected almost 500 dollars to help an Oklahoma City family that lost three children in a March Third fire. <br><br>Convicted burglar Lewis H- Brewster

Monday, April 3rd 2000, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

(Hinton-AP) -- Some inmates at a Hinton prison have collected almost 500 dollars to help an Oklahoma City family that lost three children in a March Third fire.

Convicted burglar Lewis H- Brewster heard the news on T-V at the Great Plains Correctional Institute and felt the pain of his brother, Johnda Burris.

Burris is the fiancee of Lisa Beasley, whose three children died of smoke inhalation.

Brewster told fellow inmate Roosevelt McCoy, who started telling other inmates and taking up a collection without telling Brewster.

The inmates at the facility collected 495 dollars and 15 cents for the family, some of money coming from inmates' meager earnings behind bars.

A fund was also set up at Metro Bank to help with burial expenses and the fund was flooded with donations, enough to fly the children's bodies to their home state of Illinois for burial.