Paws For Life Summary

Do you want to make your community safer? Santa Clara residents should consider in advocating prison programs because they can aid inmates to function and succeed in a law abiding world. In the article, The right choices; American prisons, the anonymous author endorses prison programs decrease the number of inmates in prison. The author also acknowledges it is difficult for inmates, those who have served their time, to live a new life after being released because there are policies that punish the inmates, therefore adding more prison time. Paws for Life is a prison program that Santa Clara residents’ taxpayer money should go towards to because this program can benefit the inmates to succeed outside of prison. The “Paws for Life” program partnered with prisons …show more content…
The “Paws for Life” is a programs that matches rescue dogs to prison inmates that train them to increase the dog’s chance of adoption. Prison inmates train rescue dogs how to be well behaved in order for a family can adopt them, therefore the dogs will learn how to sit, stay, lay, etc., in order to find a loving home. California State Prison Los Angeles County in Lancaster is the “first to have this program at a high security prison in California with inmates serving life sentences”, which means the prison community is willing to take in these dogs who are in danger going back to shelter and awaiting their death in a small cage (Patricia Fitzgerald). In the Huffington Post blog, Who Rescued Whom? Shelter Dogs and Prison Inmates Give Each Other a New ‘Leash’ on Life, PhD. Patricia Fitzgerald , a Wellness Editor and Animal Advocate, addresses that many of the inmates in California State Prison Los Angeles County signed up for this program showing that the inmates were enthusiastic to volunteer to get these shelter dog to find their “forever homes”. The application process for this program consisted of interview and essays,