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CANON CITY, COLORADO - NOVEMBER 4: A view overlooking The Wild Horse and Inmate Program facilities at the Cañon City Correctional Complex on November 4, 2009 in Cañon City, Colorado. In 1986, Colorado Correctional Industries, in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), initiated a program in Canon City where mustangs are trained and offered for adoption to qualified applicants. The state-of-the-art facility employs a staff of professional horse trainers and inmates who provide horsemanship, animal husbandry and farrier skills. Since its inception, more than 5,000 mustangs have been trained through the WHIP. Many of the trained mustangs have found homes and lead productive lives with youth riding organizations, handicap and therapeutic riding organizations, riding stables, and government agencies. (Photo by Photographer Dana Romanoff / Getty Images)