Puppies Behind Bars
Puppies Behind Bars President and Founder Gloria Gilbert Stoga visits with Marcie and Lovey about their extraordinary program that provides service dogs for wounded veterans and first responders as well as explosive-detection canines for law enforcement. Based in the heart of New York City, Puppies Behind Bars works with carefully selected inmates in six prisons throughout New York and New Jersey. Get your tissues ready as Gloria talks about this agile program and the impact these incredible canines have on the inmates who raise them and the veterans and first responders who become their lifelong human partners.
BIO:
Gloria Gilbert Stoga is president and founder of Puppies Behind Bars, a nonprofit organization that uses prison inmates to train puppies to become guide dogs for the visually impaired or explosive-detection dogs for law enforcement. Through her dreams and efforts, Gloria has been able to provide a new "leash" on life for both the inmates participating in the program and the eventual recipients of the working dogs.