Juvenile inmates bond with dog through Dream Seekers Animal Rescue and Training program

[Are_grits_groceries]

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Against this setting, the last things many people would expect the inmates to learn are love and compassion.

But that is exactly what is happening, thanks to the help of a new rehabilitation program and a rambunctious brown, black and tan 2-year-old dachshund/terrier mix named Alice.

A collaboration between Victoria Adopt-A-Pet Center and the Juvenile Justice Center, the pilot Dream Seekers Animal Rescue and Training program began Feb. 8.

The program seeks to teach the incarcerated youth about care, safety and training in hopes they will develop character traits of patience, tolerance, responsibility, accountability, dependability, compassion and empathy.
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Long read: http://www.app.com/article/20120227/NJLIFE06/302270040/Juvenile-inmates-bond-dog-through-prison-program

If this saves one of those kids, it's worth it.

[Wilms]

1. Prison Puppies

Learned about this via DU.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/01Rpuppies.html?pagewanted=all

[napoleon_in_rags]

2. Absolutely. There is so much noise, but this is what we should be zooming in on.

Isn't it funny how when those we denounce as beyond reform have the sense that they are needed, they become new people? Can't we look at the whole picture? Those who are needy, and those who are reformed by being needed, and see a way forward for this great nation?

[Owlet]

3. There was a similar program just no on NPR

https://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/03/05/146583986/pet-therapy-how-animals-and-humans-heal-each-other