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Bulloch inmates team up with shelter dogs

‘Fostering Freedom’ program launches at BCCI

King, a pit bull mix, left, Chief, a Rottweiler mix, are the first two dogs launching the Fostering Freedom program at the Bulloch County Correctional Institute. Inmates will "adopt" a dog from the Bulloch County Animal Shelter to help socialize them and help them become more adoptable at the shelter after the six-week program. (Courtesy Bulloch County)

Fostering Freedom inmates dogs — King, a pit bull mix, left, Chief, a Rottweiler mix, are the first two dogs launching the Fostering Freedom program at the Bulloch County Correctional Institute. Inmates will "adopt" a dog from the Bulloch County Animal Shelter to help socialize them and help them become more adoptable at the shelter after the six-week program. (Courtesy Bulloch County)

Bulloch County commissioners recently gave a thumbs-up to a different kind of K9 unit. Instead of law enforcement officers and highly trained purebred dogs, this program pairs inmates with shelter dogs.

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