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Inmates, vets find new hope through service dog program
By khou.com- Sebastian Robertson
Published: 05/05/2017

GATESVILLE, Texas -- Inside this women's prison North of Gatesville, two people with very different lives will forever be connected by a dog named Stan.

Inmate Nicole Windham's five DUIs got her a sentence of 13 years.

"If you don't take responsibility for it and say, 'I got myself here,' and humble yourself - that's been the biggest thing, humbling yourself from wherever you came from," Windham said.

Behind barbed wire, she found sobriety, and thanks to the Rockwall based non-profit Patriot Paws, she found purpose.

"Waking up in the morning and not having any control; they tell you when you're going to go eat; they tell you when you can shower," Windham said. "That's OK because we did something today."

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