. >> reporter: this is alfie, he's five years old and he can count. >> alfie, sit. one. three.ood boy! yay! >> reporter: and this is miley, not even a year old, but she's a good girl. >> fetch. good girl. >> reporter: alfie and miley are homeless dogs from the washington animal rescue league who have been living with the inmates at this institute for the past ten weeks learning to be loved and learning to trust. >> i think that these dogs bring them some level of joy and feeling. you know the humanity. >> reporter: two inmates work with each dog throughout the weeks and the league sends their animal behavioralist every tuesday to help them. the inmates who we are not identifying learned something deep and vital as well. >> looks at me in his eye we connected. i didn't know you could do that with a dog. >> he's done a 360 on me. like i never sought therapy, never at home stuff like that. to be able to talk about my problems. >> it's like -- it's like we're able to bring a certain peace to everyone involved. >> reporter: on this day, miley and alfie are graduating. they've comple

. >> alfie and miley are homeless dogs who have been living with the ip mates at patuxent institute forast ten weeks, learning to be loved and learning to trust. >> i think that these dogs bring them some level of joy andling, you know, the humanity. >> two inmates work with each dog throughout the weeks, and the league sends their animal behaviorist over every tuesday to heles who we are not identifying learn something deep and vital as well. >> he just looked at me in my eyes, and we connected. i mean, i didn't know you could do that with a dog. >> it has done a 360 on me. like it just helps. i've never sought therapy stuff like that. so to be able to talk about my problems. >> it's like we're able to bring a sort of peace to everyone involved. >> on this day, miley and alfie are graduating. they've completed their training and are being adopted by employees at the institute. one of the inmates who worked with miley wrote a song. ♪ even far apart in a different place ♪ >> the song that was the first thing that i thought about when i first got her. i'm like oh, man, i'm going to end up

. >> reporter: this is alfie, he's five years old and he can count. >> good boy. miley, not even a-year-old but she's a good girl. >> alfie and miley homeless dogs from the washington animal rescue league living with inmates at the institute for the past 10 weeks learning to be loved and learning to trust. >> i think these dogs bring them some level of joy and feeling, you know humanity. >> two inmates work with each dog throughout the week and the league sends their animal behaviorist over every tuesday to help them. the inmates, who we are not identifying learn something deep and violation as well. >> looked at me in my eyes and connected. i didn't know you could do that with a dog. >> it has done 360 on me. i never sought therapy, stuff like that so being able to talk about my problems. >> it's like we're able to bring a peace to everyone involved. >> on this day miley and alfie are graduating. they have completed their training and are being adopted by employees at the institute. one of the inmates who worked with miley wrote a song. ♪ far apart different plac