The Smart Prison Initiative Pairing Inmates With Rescue Dogs

In 2016, the California City Correctional Facility launched a pilot program that paired inmates, many of them convicted of violent offenses, with rescue dogs. Under the supervision of volunteers from Marley’s Mutts, a California dog rescue group, the inmates work together to train the dogs so that, at the end of the two- to three-month …

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