Prison Radio Audio Feed

"What Does it Say if Dogs Get Better Treatment than Inmates?" The dogs marched under the barb wired razor and electric fencing across the prison yard into the cell block five. Paws for Life, a program of [inaudible] rescue in the State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had arrived at California State Prison, Lancaster to train inmates to care for once condemned hounds. I'd known the dogs were coming, as I helped clean out the 24 pens on the back of the cell block—each pen two to three times the size of my cell. We polished the bars, and the door handles of the pens, and revitalized the dead grass in front of the buildings. By the time the dogs arrived, the cell block—which had been used as the hole—had freshly scrubbed floors and freshly painted walls and doors. Although I helped transform the space and knew that the dogs had been days away from being euthanized when they were rescued and sent to prison, I'd been a bit recalcitrant. Not wanting to see them locked up in cages. Still, waking up to th