(BOP) - In November 2013, FCI Morgantown began a Veterans-to-Veterans Service Dog Training Program. The service dog program will provide training and certification to 21 inmates who will become service dog trainers. The inmates have been carefully screened and selected for this particular training. All of them are military veterans and will be training dogs for veterans in the community who have mobility impairments and/or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This program is made possible through a partnership with the West Virginia University’s Division of Animal and Nutritional Sciences and researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Currently, the inmates are training eight Golden Retriever puppies, a Labradoodle, Labrador Retriever, and a Poodle. The inmate trainers, and the dogs assigned to them, all reside in a housing unit designated specifically for inmate-veterans at FCI Morgantown.
FCI Morgantown Begins Service Dog Training Program
Inmate Veterans to be certified as service dog trainers.
