Paws on Parole lets inmates at Florida's Gainesville Correctional Work Camp train shelter dogs so they're ready to be adopted by the public.
And, according to its coordinator Hilary Hynes, the four-year-old program is 100 percent successful, meaning all the dogs are adopted at the end of each training program.
Hynes started the program in 2008 for the state's lower-security inmates. The training happens in the work camp's yard, where trainers and shelter volunteers meet to set up courses and work through the day's lessons.
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Inmates teach dogs a variety of behaviors, including how to sit and behave around children.
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During each eight-week program, the dogs live at the facility with the inmates, who are non-violent offenders. This is Harlee, a year-old American Staffordshire Terrier/Boston Terrier mix.
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