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Petting zoos for prisoners! Now inmates at Category B jail are given a GOAT for therapy sessions to teach them ‘responsibility for others’Violent inmates are having therapy sessions with goats funded by the NHS, it was reported last night.
Prisoners at category B HMP Swaleside in Kent are stroking and feeding pet pygmy goats to teach them how to ‘take responsibility for others’.
Critics have slammed the courses, which are thought to be costing thousands of pounds, as a waste of taxpayers’ money.
Therapy sessions involve inmates at Swaleside’s Personality Disorder Unit with mental health problems not serious enough to be treated in hospital, according to The Sun.
The inmates care for pet goats named Karen and Faye in a farm area of the jail grounds.
David Spencer, research director of the Centre for Crime Prevention, said: ‘It beggars belief that anyone would think this is a reasonable use of resources.