The Puppies Behind Bars Program

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Puppies Behind Bars Program is training labrador retrievers and golden retrievers to assist people with disabilities

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Puppies Behind Bars (PBB) instruct prison inmates on how to raise and train puppies who become service dogs for people with disabilities and bomb detection canines for law enforcement. Read More

Why is this Puppy in Prison? How can a dog mend fractured lives? How can men shuttered away from society find hope from behind prison walls? How can a disabled child be given a new chance at independence? Behind the razor-wire walls of the Otisville Correctional Facility, lies the answer.

How Do the Dogs of Puppies Behind Bars Change Lives? Puppies Behind Bars is a program which trains inmates to raise Golden Retriever and Labrador puppies to become service dogs for the disabled and explosive detection canines for law enforcement.

VIDEO: Puppies Behind Bars Learn how the Puppies Behind Bars program is changing lives in this moving petside original video.

The Dog Tags Program Soldiers are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with disabling injuries that make it difficult to cope with the challenges of daily life. In order to provide much needed assistance, Puppies Behind Bars has started the Dog Tags program.

Explore more work from the photographer behind the Puppies Behind Bars Program View the work of Valerie Shaff

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Tags: Dogs, Labrador Retriever, animal training, puppies behind bars, service dog

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Vittorio (Unverified)

Added 06-19-2010 06:28am

I think this is a wonderful program. There is no doubt that owning or caring for a pet like a dog has tremendous rehabilitative and other positive human possibilities. Keep up this GREAT work! And may I just add that all this talk akin to 'prison being prison' and that 'prisoners are not there to have a good time' is just plain knee-jerk, rightwing rubbish. What do you want? Prisoners who come out more hardened and more bitter at society than ever, or at least some prisoners who come out better, more humane human beings? And don't come to me with rubbish about how much crime there is in the United States - I'm from South Africa where our crime rate is FAR worse than yours and where our prisons are still very much run along the American keep-em-behind-bars-in-a-savage-environment lines of incarceration. It's a disaster - our criminals are getting more organized and more hardened and our crime rate continues to soar out of control. Sound familiar? The old paradigms of incarceration are not working, folks. Of course there will always be sociopaths and psychopaths and career criminals who will never be fully rehabilitated. Such is the human condition. But that does not mean that ALL prisoners are not redemptive and should not be allowed to be part of this type of wonderful, life-affirming scheme. It is initiatives like these that allow humanity and SOME sense of possible redemption and sustainable re-integration into society into the whole prison process. And the dogs are just fine. I fully believe that when one sees programs about how they're looked after in these inmate programs. A dog is happiest when loved and cared for. Anyone who owns and loves dogs knows that. It's win-win situation.