With the seemingly endless emphasis on prisons being full of the irredeemable, here’s a timely reminder of the fact that they should be places of rehabilitation and that the people in there at present are capable of growth and change.
Inmates prepare to head back to their cells after training dogs for the day. Training the dogs is akin to a full time job for the men, with a fixed schedule and routine happening everyday. The men must care for, exercise and feed the dogs – giving them a sense of responsibility for living creatures, or as the many of them noted, ‘as if they were our kids.’ | Chris Maddaloni via Getty Images.
Arizona inmates saved 22-year-old female guard from jail cell attack.
Rachel Harris, a rookie detention officer at Lower Buckeye Jail in Maricopa County, Ariz., was conducting a routine cell check in June when inmate Bobby Ruiz allegedly jumped on her back and bit off a piece of her ear, Fox 10 reported.
According to Harris and jail surveillance video, inmates rushed upstairs to aid Harris, peeling Ruiz off the 22-year-old guard. Inmates Ricky Shillingford and…
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Shawn Hawkins 
Thanks for the amazing stories! The Death penalty system in the States is gog-smackingly amazing day-by-day but these add a bit of New Yr spice! Happy New Year – may truth triumph in 2014! All best Swithin