Featured Charity
Founded in 1997, Puppies Behind Bars (PBB) trains prison inmates to raise puppies to be guide dogs for the blind and explosive detection canines for law enforcement. The puppies live in prison with their inmate puppy raisers from the age of eight weeks to eighteen months.
As of June 2007, sixty-eight PBB-raised puppies work as guide dogs, leading their blind users through city streets, around town and down country roads. One-hundred twenty-two of our dogs work with law enforcement agencies including the NYPD Bomb Squad and the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to keep America and her allies safe. Thirteen others function as companion and therapy dogs for blind children.
PBB gives inmates the opportunity to garner feelings of self-worth, dignity and responsibility, to obtain job-related, marketable skills and of course, receive and give unconditional love, in prison.
