Inside SCI Albion, inmates participating in the Bark Program spend their days working one-on-one with rescue dogs from the ANNA Shelter.
Program leaders said the dogs learn basic skills that make them more adoptable, while inmates gain experience that can help them after release.
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“How the inmates have grown, how the handlers have learned the camaraderie between the handlers. I think they’ve grown some pretty strong relationships. And the other inmates on the block love having them here,” Kim Shrader, a Dog Program Coordinator with the facility, said.
This is the third time the prison has done a program with shelter dogs, with all but one dog being adopted by the time the dogs in training are done with the prison…