Dog training provides prisoners lessons that people can’t

Alan Newby, left, and Jonathan Norton play with their new dogs at Wildwood Correctional Center, Kenai. (Anne Hillman/Alaska Public Media)Staying calm and taking responsibility are some of the keys to success both inside and outside of prison.
But sometimes it takes more than a person to teach that.
Meet the dogs of Wildwood Correctional Center in Kenai.
“Taz, can you sit down? Do you want a treat?” said Ernie Rogers, an inmate at Wildwood, to his dog, Taz. “Can you sit? Can you