Learning to live
June 2015

Learning to Live

How AA helped one long-time inmate stay sober in prison and chart a new path

In a few days, I will be released from Florida State Prison. I have served a total of 27 years for a variety of convictions. My last drink was on the night of August 27, 1991. The next day, I woke in a holding-cell and asked the jailer what I had done. That arrest for burglary and assault lead to my fifth conviction. All my crimes were committed under the influence of alcohol.

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