Paws on Parole lets inmates at Florida's Gainesville Correctional Work Camp train shelter dogs so they're ready for their "forever homes."
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, who works with Alachua County Animal Services, started the program in 2008 for the state's lower-security inmates.
Inmates teach shelter dogs a variety of behaviors, including how to sit and behave around children, to make them more adoptable.
During each eight-week program, the dogs live with the inmates in the facility, something Hynes said doesn't bother her since the inmates at the Gainesville work camp aren't violent offenders.
"I'm very comfortable with the way that this program's designed," Hynes said. "Basically your DUI and drug offenders are pretty excellent."
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.
Source: Paws on Parole
Now, let's meet the pooches...
Source: Paws on Parole
This is Harlee, a year-old American Staffordshire Terrier/Boston Terrier mix.
Source: Paws on Parole
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