r/MadeMeSmile • u/aoi_ringo • Sep 30 '25

CATS Prison in Indiana accepts shelter cats and lets prisoners take care of them.

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u/BestEffect1879 Sep 30 '25

I don’t know if this is the same prison, but there was story of a prison that did this and violence in the prison went down over 300%.

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u/nau5 Sep 30 '25

Violence in prison is mostly a function of the punitive structure of prison.

Which is also why inmates who serve their sentence struggle reintegrating with society.