Our Prison Partners

Second Chance Greyhounds: Inmates and Greyhounds Prison Partnership program has established a prison partnership program at the Gadsden Correctional Facility in Quincy, Florida, that will provide foster care homes and inmate caretakers for former racing Greyhounds. It is an opportunity for inmates to give back to the community while alleviating boredom and tension in prison, resulting in a safer environment for both staff and inmates.

The training and socialization program will increase retention of Greyhounds in their new adoptive homes, and allow many inmates, for the first time, to experience first hand, the unconditional love of a pet. The combination of this animal/human bond and the socialization training by the inmates will help bring joy and unconditional love into the lives of people in their community with a former racing Greyhound.

We will continue to work directly with select Georgia and Florida prisons to create more unique programs which will provide this partnering between inmates and Greyhounds.

The nationwide collaboration currently partners over one hundred (100) Department of Corrections facilities, over ten (10) prisons in 21 states, over one hundred (100) Greyhound adoption groups, and more than 13,000 inmates all working together to save more than 6000 retired racing Greyhound's lives a year.