SOME local residents did hard time behind bars in the name of charity at Morisset on Monday.
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Time 4 Kids is a Youth Week event which aims to stop youth crime and raise money for local Police Citizens Youth Clubs (PCYCs).
Local volunteers are "locked up" and then required to raise "bail" to get out of jail.
Bail comes in the form of donations from passers-by and the prisoner's friends and colleagues.
Morisset PCYC manager and Lake Macquarie councillor Rosmairi Dawson said about $4500 was raised for the club, more than double the funds raised in last year's event.
"All the money raised will go to the Morisset PCYC to help fund programs and buy new equipment," she said.
Cr Dawson was locked up, as was Westpac Morisset manager Mel Roberts, and Morisset Rotary Club member Allan Hathaway.
"A special mention to Lake Macquarie councillor Chad Griffith and Centennial Coal manager John Turner, who were our top two individual fund-raisers," she said.