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California Prisons Expand K-9 Program To Find Contraband
By capradio.org- Bob Moffitt
Published: 10/03/2017

Solano State Prison in Vacaville will begin training eight dogs this week as a program to find contraband like drugs and cell phones expands.

The dogs will spend the next two days meeting prospective handlers and acclimating to working in prison.

"When we start the academy, we do two days of classroom work with the handlers," said Jeremy Packard, the statewide K-9 coordinator for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. "On the third day, we actually give the dogs to the assigned handler. So, they're with the handler 24-7 from that point on until the last day of certification."

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