A 30-year-old program giving 30 incarcerated individuals in Colorado an opportunity to care for wild horses is coming to an end.

The Wild Horse Inmate Program offers vocational training and rehabilitation to the state's incarcerated population, while also supporting the need to manage and protect the population of wild horses and burros.

Horses in prison vocational program need new home. CBS

The Bureau of Land Management periodically removes groups of wild horses from Sand Wash Basin in order to protect natural resources and prevent overpopulation that could threaten the wild horses. The East Cañon City Prison Complex, a collection of state prison buildings and ranches, is one of the places the horses are taken. In 2021, CBS Colorado was given a rare tour of the ranch a

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