Friends of Guest House residents will have a comfy new year, as more than 75 sets of new pajamas and cozy socks were donated to the nonprofit and handed out on Christmas Eve.
The donations are enough to keep the residents outfitted with pajamas for an entire year, and were made possible by Maureen Clyne, a local realtor, who started the holiday effort seven years ago.
“Women in incarceration seem to be an almost invisible constituency,” Clyne told ALXnow. “They go into prison with the clothes on their back, and so when they come out they don’t have a whole lot. They’re starting over. Pajamas are just a soft, personal and somewhat indulgent thing to have, and for Christmas, it’s a great time to have new PJs.”…