Causes: Animal Protection & Welfare, Animals

Mission: Prison Greyhounds is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to placing retired racing greyhounds in permanent loving homes, while providing the inmate-handler with the opportunity of finding compassion, team building skills and rehabilitation through the human-animal connection. We have impacted many nonviolent inmate-handlers by fostering dogs inside a prison in Greencastle, Indiana. Once fostered, these greyhounds transition more readily into their forever homes. In addition, we retrieve and adopt greyhounds that retired prematurely because of racing injuries. These dogs often wait the longest in the kennels before an adoption group says “We want that dog!” We take the dogs that some consider “damaged goods” and find them loving, responsible homes by telling their story.

Target demographics: Select, nonviolent offenders and ex-racing greyhounds that need adoptive homes.

Geographic areas served: Indiana (Putnamville Correctional Facility)