When three brothers fell into Salmon Creek in southwest
Washington, inmates working nearby dove into the freezing water to save them
Wednesday afternoon, The Columbian reports.
"Just cause we're incarcerated, doesn't mean we're bad
people. We made some bad choices in our lives, but we're still, we're just like
everybody else. We're just paying our debt for what we did wrong," Jon
Fowler, 28, one of the inmates, told KPTV.
Fowler was part of a 10-person work crew from the prison
doing supervised maintenance at a nearby park, the Columbian reports.
“We just thought it was some kids screaming until we seen
their two heads bobbing in the water with the canoe upside down,"
37-year-old Nelson Pettis, an inmate at Larch Corrections Center told KPTV.
