Welcome to "The Greyhound Inmate Experience"
Celebrating 9 years and graduating over 883 greyhounds!
We invite you to spend a few minutes exploring our site to get better
acquainted and learn more about this all inspiring program that
touches the lives of so many people.
The Greyhound Inmate Experience is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) Michigan
volunteer
organization. Our purpose is to socialize, train, and care for retired greyhounds
in a prison environment and to educate the public of the redemptive qualities and
rehabilitative benefits of the program.
Every ten weeks twenty greyhounds are put into the care and
supervision of forty specially selected and trained incarcerated dog
handlers. As the greyhounds transition from racer to pet, people's
lives are also transformed.
This program touches the soul of everyone
connected to it. Learn more about our inspiration, our adoption
partners who find forever homes for our graduates and our Supportive
Friends who contribute on an on-going basis...we could not do
this without them!
Summer is going soon, and we hope Covid 19 will be gone
soon!
We hope all is well with your families and friends. Thank You for
your support. We look forward to a vaccine sometime in the near
future so we may all resume our normal lives.
COVID 19 Lakeland Update
The prison has been clear of the virus for a while now but is
still has a no visitors allowed policy. We have not been inside
Lakeland since February of this year. It will probably stay this
way for the balance of the year. We maintain close contact with
the handlers and staff to keep up with the program and it's daily
activities.
While Session 44 was 14 weeks we are back to our 10 week program,
and will look to try and maintain this schedule.
New Arrivals
Session 45 Photos are up!
We welcomed 20 new greyhounds on June 25th, 2020. This session
is for ten weeks. Happy to report all new dogs are doing well
and doing well in their training.
We have put pictures up today, August 10th,2020
The graduation for this session will be on September 3, 2020.
Photos are Here
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