i've read up on these programs and from what I understand they are extremely carefully run and the participants VERY carefully chosen with a whole bunch of criteria needed for them to be accepted as an animal caregiver. They are also overseen EXTREMELY well and so far seem to be work for what they are intended for although I can't speak for a real change once the inmate actually left prison.
Weedhound Reviewed by Weedhound on . Cell Dogs The article is from a March 2005 issue of the Journal of Correctional Education, and it goes on (for several more worthy pages) regarding inmate rehabilitation through obidience training with dogs, horses, and a few other animals. Humanizing Prisons with Animals: A Closer Look at "Cell Dogs" and Horse Programs in Correctional Institutions I think it's great what they're doing to make an already corrupt prison system a little bit of a better place for the inmates, guards, and the Rating: 5