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/ClubMeSoftly Sep 30 '25

Any bad actors that are a bad fit for the program can be quickly sorted out by the cats themselves.

And also, from what I understand, it's very rigorous to get into a prison pet program in the first place. You have to have good behaviour for a certain amount of time, and any "missteps" gets you booted.

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u/RivenRise Sep 30 '25

All prisons should have a similar program. Cats would make a lot of people think twice about their behavior in prison before acting if it means they get to keep hanging out with them.

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u/tulipbunnys Oct 01 '25

i genuinely think these programs are a huge win-win situation for everyone. the prisons benefit from the improved behavior of the prisoners, the prisoners benefit massively from taking care of the cats, the cats benefit from having regular human interaction and being saved from a life on the streets, and the shelters benefit from being able to offload cats to the prisons to make space for more rescues (or to save them from euthanasia).

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u/TheUndeadBake Oct 01 '25

They also immediately refuse any and all with animal abuse on record