Out of a prison in upstate New York, PUPPIES BEHIND BARS is underway & changing lives. Inmates at the Fishkill Correctional Facility are training puppies behind bars & in the process being transformed. Inmates are given 8-week-old puppies and taught to train them to become service dogs for the disabled, including wounded returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. The puppies and the prisoners are together for 24 hours a day - the dogs even sleep in crates in the inmates' cells. In return, prisoners experience something they never expected - unconditional love. Glenn Close was recently on The Oprah Winfrey Show sharing her first encounter with the program when she volunteered at a women's prison in her town. "We know the bond that can be created between humans and animals. And there is common knowledge that it's a healing quality," Close says. Learn more at: http://www.puppiesbehindbars.org.
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