The Benefits for the Inmates:

• Participants learn to redirect their focus from themselves to care for another
• They learn a valuable, marketable job skill
• There is satisfaction as they volunteer their time to save an animal’s life
• It allows the opportunity to return something positive to the community – a healthy, well socialized and well adjusted pet
• There is a sense of accomplishment and pride when the dog successfully graduates

The Benefits to Correctional Staff:

• Adds a successful and popular vocational program
• Improves inmate cooperation
• Inmates are more compliant with fewer violations
• Promotes an institutional environment of less tension and violence while improving communication between staff and inmates

The Benefits for the Community:

• Lowers rate of euthanasia in Lee County’s animal shelters
• Lowers recidivism and cost to tax payer
• Lowers cost for animal control
• Provides well trained dogs for adoption
• Provides more productive members of society.
• To learn more about the adoption process, contact Gulf Coast Humane Society