Prisoners and Pups Programs

Have a look at what the pups are learning in the correctional facilities.

Puppies Behind Bars located in New York City, has programs in five maximum-security prisons: four in New York and one in Connecticut. Inmates train guide dogs for the blind and explosive-detection canines. PBB collaborates with organizations such as Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Guide Dog Foundation, Guide Dogs in America and the Seeing Eye. It also offers inmates the opportunity to take a correspondence course in veterinary assistance. www.puppiesbehindbars.com

Project Pooch located in Woodburn, Oregon in the Mac Laren Correctional Facility is a non-profit organization. Project Pooch matches dogs that would otherwise be destroyed with youth offenders who train the dogs in basic obedience and prepare them to be adopted as family pets. www.pooch.org

The Prison Pet Partnership being held in the Washington Correctional Center for Women Gig Harbor, Washington. It is said to be one of the first prison pup programs, the non-for-profit Partnership rescues dogs from local shelters and matches them with inmates who fully train them to be service, therapy and companion dogs. Dogs that don’t make it to the professional level are put up for adoption. The Partnership offers inmates a chance to learn professional animal care via an onsite grooming and boarding facility.

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The Prison PUP Program located in Princeton, MA. Since 1976, this non-profit National Education for Assistance Dog Services (NEADS) has been training dogs to assist people who are deaf, hearing impaired or physically disable. In 1998 they initiated the PUP Program, which places puppies with inmates, to train assistance dogs more quickly. NEADS partners with five correctional facilities in Massachusetts, Maine and Connecticut

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