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How rescue dogs are helping convicts rehabilitate
By dailymail.co.uk - Craig Mackenzie
Published: 01/06/2012

It may sound barking mad but hardened criminals are discovering what softies they are by caring for pooches 24 hours a day.

Forget the usual prison image of chain gangs and razor wire, tough U.S. jailbirds are each being handed a helpless pup to care for in their cells night and day.

In two years, 468 rescue dogs have been placed with families after being trained by inmates in the Missouri Department of Corrections' 'Puppies for Parole' programme.

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