PHOENIX - JULY 8: Ginger, a five-year-old Pit Bull/Shar-Pei mix, howls upon receiving her morning meal from a Maricopa County Jail inmate at the jail's fourth floor Maricopa Animal Safe Hospice (MASH) July 8, 2005 in Phoenix, Arizona. Ginger, who is dog-aggressive, has been at the hospice for three years. According to Officer Christina Sandoval, who runs the MASH unit animals, like humans, can develop feelings of being institutionalized. Ginger is one of 20 dogs and 31 cats currently being taken care of by 17 female inmates, whom volunteer and go through a formal interview process for the privileged duty of caring for the animals, care for 20 dogs and 31 cats in the five year old program started by Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The inmates have two days removed from their jail sentence for each day worked in the unit. The program takes in animals that have been abused, abandoned or are evidence in a criminal case and keeps them until they are adopted. Inmates feed, clean, groom and provide obedience lessons for the 587 animals (dogs, cats, birds, horses) that have gone through the hospice since it began. (Photo by Jeff Topping/Getty Images)
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