AR-News: (US KY) Pups and prisoners bond

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Program trains dogs for service work 
By MAUREEN HAYDEN Courier & Press staff writer 464-7433 or 
haydenm at evansville.net
February 2, 2004 
Two years ago, it would have been tough to convince Shawn Falls that there 
was anything good about a five-year prison sentence. 
That was before he met Max, a bruiser of a Labrador puppy who's given new 
purpose to Falls' time behind bars at the Branchville Correctional Center in 
Perry County, Ind. Now, said the 30-year-old inmate, "every day here means working 
toward something good." That something good is Max, one of 22 dogs in Indiana 
correctional facilities, in training to become service dogs to children and 
teenagers with physical, mental or emotional disabilities. Their chief trainers 
and handlers are prison inmates like Falls, nonviolent offenders who have 
been given the time-intensive task of transforming rambunctious puppies into 
calm, loyal and obedient canine companions. 


full story:

:http://www.courierpress.com/ecp/news/article/0,1626,ECP_734_2622574,00.html



"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
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