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| MO Prisoners Softened by Canines |
| By stltoday.com |
| Published: 03/08/2010 |
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One day last month, a correctional officer at the maximum security prison in Jefferson City was walking toward the employees' dining hall when he noticed something unsettling. A group of inmates — offenders, they're called in today's jargon — were looking past him toward Housing Unit No. 5. The inmates were staring at something. They were absolutely silent. "Dead quiet can mean a couple of things here, and none of them good, so I quickly looked back to see what was happening," said correctional officer John Osborne. "They were staring at Koda." She is a Siberian husky. She was in the first batch of dogs brought to the prison as part of a new program. Actually, Koda and her canine colleagues at the Jefferson City Correctional Center and another batch of dogs at the medium-security Missouri Eastern Correctional Center in Pacific represent an expansion of an old program. Inmates at the women's prison in Vandalia have been training dogs since 1982. In the beginning, that program was restricted to training service dogs. Then rescue dogs were included. Read More. |
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