In a prison far from the beach in US, these men are building lifeguard stands


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(from left) Beam, Walters, Andres and Hernandez with a lifeguard stand. Photos: Alejandro A. Alvarez/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS

The lifeguard stand is headed for the beach in Lavallette, New Jersey, the United States, this summer, but for the men who built it, it will be awhile before they can see it.In a carpentry workshop on the grounds of Bayside State Prison the other day, these incarcerated men couldn't help but think about their own beach memories as they worked on the painted-white, cedar, three-person Jersey Shore lifeguard stand.

"That's the first thing I say, where's the sand?" said Henry Hernandez, 38, who grew up going to Orchard Beach in the Bronx, on New York's Pelham Bay. "It's pretty cool."

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