It seems that the dog training program for the disabled that has been instituted at the Dwight Correctional Center, the state’s largest women’s prison has had positive effects on the inmates selected to train the dogs.
The program has helped put many inmates on a path to lasting rehabilitation. Only two of the 39 women who have trained dogs and completed their sentences returned to prison. That compares with recent data showing nearly half of all women released from the Illinois prison system were back behind bars within three years.
The program is 7 years old and more than 150 dogs have been placed since then.
Read more about the program & watch the video here…
