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CBS Chicago featured Dyson Professor Kimberly Collica-Cox in "Two New Programs At Kane County Jail Aim To Use Dogs To Help Improve Inmate Behavior"
CBS Chicago featured Dyson Professor Kimberly Collica-Cox in "Two New Programs At Kane County Jail Aim To Use Dogs To Help Improve Inmate Behavior"
Parenting, Prison & Pups is a multi-year study of the effect of dogs on incarcerated women in New York by the Good Dog Foundation and Pace University’s Dyson College.
Nationally, 70% of inmates are mothers of children under age 18.
The hypothesis is that parenting skills taught behind bars are better retained if animals come to class. New York-based researcher Dr. Kimberly Collica-Cox told CBS 2 that preliminarily, depression is down and self-esteem is up.
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