"Members of Corrections Committees coordinate the work of individual A.A. members and groups to carry the message of recovery to alcoholics who are in custody." ---  (Bringing meetings and literature into facilities)

Why Carry the Message Behind the Walls?

Many A.A. members are unaware of the important work being carried out by corrections committees. To those involved, however, corrections work is an opportunity to carry the A.A. message to the confined alcoholic who wants to live sober, one day at a time.

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Wane TV News Report on new Jail Chemical Addictions Program

Wane TV announces new Allen County Jail JCAP program that helps addicts at the end of their rope through counseling, introspection, bookwork and life skills training. The 12-week Jail Chemical Addictions Program offers no other incentive than to beat the addiction. No sentence reduction, no special favors. Effective 8/1/2022, Allen County is the 10th county in the state to institute JCAP, a recovery program shown to work.

Source: https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/new-substance-abuse-program-at-allen-county-jail-is-here-jcap/

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Fort Wayne Area Intergroup Corrections Committee Update - by Intergroup Vice Chair - Brian S.

As of August 1, 2022, the Allen County Jail Chemical Addiction Program (JCAP) allows Fort Wayne Area AA Members to carry our message of hope.  Volunteering for the Corrections Committee provides an opportunity to carry the AA message to the confined alcoholic "behind the walls" of area jails and prisons.

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Bill W. wrote to a prison group in 1949:

"Every A.A. has been, in a sense, a prisoner. Each of us has walled himself out of society; each has known social stigma. The lot of you folks has been even more difficult: In your case, society has also built a wall around you. But there isn’t any real essential difference, a fact that practically all A.A.s now know. Therefore, when you members come into the world of A.A. on the outside, you can be sure that no one will care a fig that you have done time. What you are trying to be—not what you were—is all that counts with us."



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"An active corrections committee is a vital link to prisons and jails, providing professionals and other workers in correctional facilities with information about A.A., literature, and guidelines for setting up A.A. groups on the inside."

Source: https://www.aa.org/sites/default/files/literature/m45i_WorkbookCorr.pdf

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