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America’s Most Unwanted: Dogs and Inmates Unite For a Better Future (VIDEO)

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Dogs and prisoners share the experience of being outcasts from society. It is no coincidence that we use a lot of dog metaphors to describe negative experiences, like being abused, overworked, or rejected. Have you ever thought you’re being “treated like a dog” or perhaps that you were in the “dog house?” Plain and simple, our society associates being a dog as being less than human, and whether we like to admit it or not, society treats prison inmates in the same way.

But, more than ever, these two marginalized members of society are joining forces and the result is something magical.

Uniting these two castaways, prison dog programs are helping to better the lives of dogs and the prisoners who love them. “Saving Casataways,” an online docu-series, demonstrates the power of prison rehabilitation programs to transform the lives of inmates and dogs. Learning to train and rebuild the confidence of abused dogs, prisoners find the strength to apply these same concepts to their own lives.

Check out the most recent episode below to see the success of these programs first hand with the story of inmate Gregory Jones.

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  1. (comment from Christine Kiefer): “nice idea, but they should use positive reinforcement rather than prong collars!”
    (comment from me): “christine kiefer–the picture you saw of the boston terrier with the prong collar–was to show you a ‘reject’–how that dog was abused in society–with a prong collar. retraining the dogs–in effect retraining the men–and never using ‘prong’ collars on either species again, is what this program is all about. rewatch the beginning of this segment–i think you will see that the dog may have ‘had’ the prong collar on, but it is going to literally be removed and the dog rehabilitated. mr jones will then be then, also, have his metaphorically self-imposed prong collar removed and, he, too, will then become rehabilitated–both ready to rejoin society and able to work within it–not against it. personally, i ‘think’ that the boston terrier was ‘put into his prong-collar costume’ AS a metaphor–by the producers, etc. wouldn’t surprise me one bit that they were attempting to make a point–and with you, they obviously failed. you took what you saw literally. i took what i saw (the same exact thing you saw) as a metaphor for incarceration and then being freed. it is all in how we perceive things. –jana, san antonio, tejas”

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