"I thought I had lost the capacity to feel certain emotions. Then I started working with dogs." Jamie Silvonek writes for Prison Journalism Project about her experiences raising and training service dogs while being incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Muncy, Pa. "Prison is desensitizing, leeching us of our capacity to feel anything other than numbness ... Being loved by a dog is a gift I am grateful to receive every day, even while in prison."
