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A lot of these guys come from living on the streets, just like the dogs, so they can relate to each other. >> loose leash. now, he just walked him right through you with no problem. >> everything about an inmate is negative. the courts are negative, jails negative, families can be negative, community can be negative. >> nice work! >> good job. good job. perfect. >> and all the sea of negativity, here's this one bright spot that this inmate can kind of give something back to society. that dog doesn't care what he did, how he did it, where he did it. all he wants to be is taken care of. >> now o...

It's hard to believe we started this almost two and a half years ago and here we are 30 classes into it. >> we've saved over a thousand dogs during the life of this program, not to mention this is one of the best programs we have for the recidivism rate. people that go through this particular program typically don't come back to us, and i throw that out as challenge to you gentlemen. when you leave, don't come back. we want you to go out and we'll do all we can to help you have a productive life once you get out of here. >> at this time i'd like to call them up one at a time. alvin daryl and h...

I don't have time. i want to do my time so i can restart my life again. >> conrad is an army veteran with ten years of service. this is his first time in jail. >> i found out i'm a pretty damn good trainer. i guess it subs you know for training soldiers. now i train dogs. at least they listen better sometimes. this is minion. he's a 1-year-old, a mix. living with him is like living with a grown man. farts, snores, takes up more room than i do. no more sit-ups or pushups in the room anymore as you can tell. there's not a whole lot of room for activities. >> if found guilty, conrad faces up to 1...

Training dogs who were in danger of being euthanized because their past behavior made them difficult to adopt. the dogs have now reached the end of their training period. >> today is test day so last day of the cycle. kind of a somber day. i mean, you work with them for 30 days and they get to leave. >> graduation day is not a happy day. it's actually sad. i've seen them cry. it's real emotional for them. that's what we want. we want them to build that bond, that relationship. if they can bond with an animal, then they can bond with their children, their wife, their parents, their employers, y...

>> keith has recently plead not guilty to new charges including murder and carjacking. he's been removed from the detention center's dog program and moved back into general population. curtis conrad says he and the other inmates in operation new hope will have to take over training johnson's dog who's been allowed to remain in the program. >> pretty much what's going to happen is i will pick up the slack for him or someone else does, and we'll keep training him coinciding with our dogs until we get a handle and go back and back-brief them on what's going on. i'm glad you moved in, i really am....