Blue Star Service Dogs pairs prison inmates with rescue dogs — animals pulled from the streets or the pound — and trains them to become service animals for veterans and ...

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On Thursdays at Thumb Correctional Facility in Lapeer, the work looks exacting rather than symbolic. An inmate handler r ...

LANSING –The holiday season at the Department of Corrections is the time of the year when staff, inmates and the public get excited to see the newest edition of the Dogs of the MDOC Calendar. “It ...

This April marked one year since Chase Benoit, a man incarcerated at California’s San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, had laid eyes on Wendel, the guide dog he had once trained in prison. But when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inmates at the Tennessee Department of Correction are training service dogs for people in need through the Retrieving Independence ...

The Austin Animal Center is often overcrowded, but there is a new program, called Enduring Service, connecting dogs with volunteer trainers in the hopes of getting them adopted.