I feel this is a great idea and hope this helps many young people who are good deep down and just had a bad start.

Some of the best lessons in my life I gained while living on a ranch. Many of those lessons came from the animals there (pets, livestock and wild critters). With several different horses I did such tasks as checking on cattle, driving cattle, moving heavy objects (such as logs to make a raft), exploring distant places and "pulling calves" (calves that didn't deliver normally). However, the greatest lesson I learned from the horses is that you can get along with friends (critters included) best if there is mutual respect.
Those horses at Gunnison are providing a great service!

Enter comment Years ago my husband and I we bought 4 mustangs in Wyoming they had been broke by enmates we were very pleased in fact I still have one brown gilding named Cookie. The funny part about these mustangs they didn't know how to eat oats, alfalfa, but they learned to like it. Cookie is broke to ride and is a very calm horse. I wouldn't mind buying a couple, again. Thanks, Clarice

I just read this article, and I think it is wonderful. It will only work with a few inmates but this and other hands on experiences for these people is absolutly a different and super approach to rehabilation for both animal and human. keep up the good work and try to find other hands on things for these people to do. Its a small price for the potenial of this program.

What a great program and service this is. Hopefully it will make a life time difference to those who are priviledged to be a part of this program. Why wait for an 18 monthe release time? It could benefit so many others.

I think that this is such a great program. These inmates work hard to earn the privlage to work in these types of programs. Hopefully it will impact them for the better.

What a good thing for inmates at CUCF What a outlet for them, The inmates need some things like this to help buld them up and not put them down.

First of all, the horses are not sold - they're adopted. A big difference. When adopted, the BLM makes visits to the new homes to check up on the horses' care. If not cared for, they will take the horse/horses back to find other homes. These are HIGHLY PROTECTED animals. The reason for adoption is to try to prevent people from buying them only to re-sell to slaughterhouses.

And, also, the ranches that the untrainable horses are sent to in the Midwest are wonderful homes for these horses -- not a prison sentence to live out their lives. They have all the green grass and hay they can eat and lots of horse company - and no work! - which makes a horse very happy. Just grazing and horse company all day. As well, vet care. In the wild, every day is a challenge to survive -- so the ranch is an improvement. Maybe an interview with the BLM management before writing the story would have been enlightening.