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A cell dog is a rescue dog that is being housed with a prison inmate, with the goal of improving the lives of both. These dogs are placed through a collaboration between the prison and an animal shelter. The inmates attempt to make the dog "adoptable" through obedience training, learning the skills of
NEADS began the Prison PUP Program in 1998, in which prison inmates foster and train service dog puppies for one to two years. In 2000, NEADS expanded its services to include the training of service dogs trained to assist children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
"The training process for an inmate — it's really hard," the founder said. "There's tests, there's quizzes, there's hands-on assignment. ... puppies enter a prison at the age of 8 weeks and live ...
Toby Dorr, formerly Toby Young, infamously helped John Manard break out of a Kansas prison in 2006. In a personal essay for TODAY, she shares more about her own journey to freedom.
This organization is changing how prison inmates are serving time. "Puppies Behind Bars" allows men and women behind bars to train service dogs and give them to deserving veterans who need their help.
Dogs On The Inside is a 2014 American documentary film about the rehabilitation program in which prisoner inmates are given care of stray and abused dogs at the North Central Correctional Institution in Gardner, Massachusetts. The film follows the pairings of prisoners and dogs from their first meeting through adoption into a loving family.
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In Richmond, Virginia, when a dog fighter was sentenced in June 2007, it was revealed in court that over a dozen of his dogs had to be euthanized, either because of serious illness, injury or malnutrition, or because their training as fighting dogs made them too dangerous for adoption. Until 2006, the man had kept 16 pit bulls in the backyard ...