Students create book drive for jail The Kansan Elise Jantz, a senior at Newton High School this year, envisions jail as a claustrophobic place, with those inside needing a mental break from that now and then. Jantz, and members of the National Honor Society, delivered tools for that mental break on Good Friday — boxes of books for the Harvey County Detention Center Library. There were more than 220 books in those boxes, collected over the course of a few weeks. She got the idea from her sister, who donates to a jail in her area. "We were looking for a group service project at that time, and I thought this one would be a good one for us to do," Jantz said.