The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Animal Farm, a small zoo on the grounds of a detention facility in Key West, was started by accident in the mid-1990s when word got out that the sheriff had rescued some ducks from a nearby road. Since then, many animals – abandoned, abused, confiscated or donated – have been brought to the farm, which is maintained by a small team of people incarcerated there. Correspondent Conor Knighton reports on a zoo that is making a difference in the lives of those incarcerated as well as the more than 100 animals currently residing there.
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pairing inmates with animal care is always a win/win situation. then training dogs is also great program!
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It's good for children visiting the Zoo to developing good skills and knowledge about different kinds of animal's 😊
You just can’t trust CBS communist broadcast system anymore. Even there fluff stories have an agenda.
What a lovely person that lady is
Perfect! This works on so many levels.
Animals make everything better ❤
Why don’t all prisons have zoo’s???
I hope that these men continue to work with animals when they are released from jail.
This is great!
Animals can heal people
Thank you for allowing me to be in the interview and also both farmers to allow me to be a part of the farm. It definitely is a huge role that got me through me hard times. Animals are the best! Loved every part of this. Staff and inmates were all a great refresh to get out too. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of the interview and for people to see this great sanctuary.
That is amazing!
"Yeah, Bonnie, you wanna do me a favor and open up the Yellow Pages and uh under the section for 'Correctional Facilities, Animals…'"
👍 What a great and beautiful idea! We should copy this to other prison program facilities! 🐦🐢🐖🐐
Good humans did this ❤ Thank You 😊
Awesome way that a fluke and lack of animal shelter evolved to this bimonthly zoo. Animals are beautiful ,exotic ambassadors for the betterment of mankind.
Caring and love is the best rehab you can have ,she is doing a great job at both !
Thank you ❤God Bless you and your endeavors🤩
Question: What happens with this zoo, animals, and inmates when a hurricane rolls by?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if every city had a Zoo under their jail to help rehabilitate those who are low level offenders!
This is what true rehabilitation is all about. You can’t lock people away in cement boxes and think they’re going to know how change.
Thank you to the guys helping the animals.
Love this!!!
That would make me want to go to jail and get assigned to animal duty!
Wonderful💖
The zoo is the jail, for the animals.
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