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U.S. prisons groom dogs for Iraq veterans
By Reuters Canada
Published: 05/04/2007

CRANSTON, RI - Edward Parent, 31, is doing 10 years at a medium-security prison here for killing a teenage girl while drunk driving. Chuck, who dozes in Parent's cell, has committed no crime.

Chuck is a Labrador retriever, one of dozens of dogs being trained by prison inmates in a fast-growing program that provides "service dogs" to help U.S. veterans who have lost arms and legs or suffered brain injuries in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more.

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