The tour for RCSE members was led by Lieutenant Hall, Commander Todd Freesman (Rotary West member), and Major Boyles; we started in the Intake Area before they showed us one of the GED classrooms. We learned about several training programs, including a SERV Safe, the Chaplin’s program, and the Operation New Hope canine training program, all of which are designed to give inmates skills that will assist them when the re-enter society.  We had a chance to visit the Operation New Hope canine training program in one of the women’s housing pods, Unit 4, where we saw female inmates working with their dogs, all of whom are shelter dogs who would’ve otherwise been euthanized.  The intensive training program not only provides inmate handlers with job and life skills, but provides socialization and basic obedience training to the dogs to make them more suitable for adoption.  It started in 2011 and is the most successful program currently operating at the complex.