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| Missouri prison programs aim to instill positive qualities in offenders |
| By missourinet.com- Alisa Nelson |
| Published: 09/12/2016 |
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Programs like training shelter dogs, growing produce for food pantries and making items for classrooms aim to instill compassion and responsibility in Missouri prisoners. These so-called Restorative Justice programs are offered to some of the 30,000 offenders within Missouri’s 21 prisons. State Department of Corrections Director George Lombardi says inmates consider these programs a privilege. “I believe that compassion will make them (prisoners) think twice about committing a crime if they really believe in their soul and in their heart that they have empathy for other people,” says Lombardi. More than 2,000 inmates in Missouri’s prison system have been obedience trainers for shelter dogs. Lombardi believes “Puppies for Parole” is the most transformative program within the state’s prisons, for the inmates and for the dogs. “The recidivism rate for those people is much lower than any other inmates,” says Lombardi. Read More. |
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