K9s for Camo

Episode 5- "The Prison Perspective"


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  "We get a little piece of our humanity back."  

   Words from an inmate at a Missouri prison who spends hours each day training a rescue dog for someone else to eventually love.  The inmates know the dogs they train - the ones that often steal their hearts - will have to graduate someday, leave the prison to make another person's life better.  Still, the task is cherished and considered a privilege.  Retired journalist Lissa Hamblen goes behind the walls at the Jefferson City Correctional Center to learn how Puppies for Parole and K9s for Camo improves life for the staff, inmates, dogs and eventually a deserving veteran.  

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K9s for CamoBy Lissa Hamblen