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Prisoners are looking after therapy ducks to help them go straight and turn their backs on gang culture.
HMP Dovegate in Staffordshire introduced the waterfowl as part of its Pet Assisted Therapy scheme to encourage prisoners to stop reoffending.
The four ducks, which came from a local rescue centre, are not the only meditative tool that has been introduced at the Serco-run facility.
Inmates at the Category B facility can also benefit from in-cell yoga and chess, a choir, and plots to grow vegetables and flowers.
A staff member introduces the therapy ducks, which are part of HMP Dovegate's Pet Assisted Therapy programme
The Muscovy ducks came from the Freshfields Farm Animal Rescue Centre in Liverpool in October 2020
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