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Originally Posted by Billcat
They've had an interesting program in one of our prisons. The prisoners work to train therapy dogs. It's considered a very high privilege among the inmates to be allowed into the program. Takes some seriously good behavior to get in and stay in, and the work is useful. As many of these inmates have real socialization issues, the work with the dogs sometimes has a therapeutic effect as well.
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did'nt they make a documentary series about this?
if it's the one i'm thinking of then i have to admit it did seem to work really well for all parties (ie. prisoner, dog and owners)
sorry bit of a thread wander i know!