Prison Dogs

Prison Dogs (formerly known by the working title Puppies Behind Bars) is a 2016 American documentary film about service dogs trained by prison inmates for use by veterans with disabilities.

Prison Dogs
Directed by
Produced by
  • Perri Peltz
  • Clare Vance
  • Jamie Lustberg
  • Jennifer Mirsky
Music byJoel Goodman
CinematographyRudy Valdez
Edited byAndrew Siwoff
Production
company
G2P2 Films
Distributed byJourneyman Pictures
Release date
[1]
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Synopsis

The film documents the two-year process of raising a service dog for use by veterans with PTSD by inmates in the Puppies Behind Bars program (run by Gloria Gilbert Stoga) at Fishkill Correctional Facility in New York.

Puppies Behind Bars (PBB) is a program that trains prison inmates to raise service dogs for wounded war veterans and first responders, as well as explosive-detection canines for law enforcement. Puppies enter prison at the age of 8 weeks and live with their inmate puppy-raisers for approximately 24 months. Inmates learn what it means to contribute to society while the puppies mature into well trained dogs. [2]

gollark: The traffic light banned list works now!
gollark: Bright, coherent, directed ones, but lights nevertheless.
gollark: You're not a member of the state.
gollark: Lasers are lights.
gollark: Incidentally, I really need some sort of live-update mechanism for the traffic lights.

References
  1. "Prison Dogs". Tribeca Film Festival. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  2. https://www.puppiesbehindbars.com/mission-history/


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