Claim: Texas department of corrections used to have prisoners pretend to escape and hunted them with dogs for entertainment, the inmates who handled the dogs were called dawg boys and a movie was made about it.
Evidence: Dog boy was a term used to refer to adult male prison inmates in the Texas Department of Corrections for prisoners who would mimic an escape to be hunted down by prison bloodhounds and mounted guards as a training exercise. During the 1800s, inmates who handled the dogs were known as dawg boys. A movie entitled Dogboys, a 1998 American-Canadian made-for-television action-thriller film directed by Ken Russell and starring Dean Cain, Tia Carrere and Bryan Brown was originally broadcast on Showtime on April 4, 1998.