A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

The Springfield, Mo., Group has been sponsoring an A.A. meeting at the federal prison in that city for more than three months. The prison, known as the U. S. Medical Center, has inmates here for treatment from all over the U. S. and many have had previous experience with A.A. Notice of the first meeting carried in The Prison News brought dozens of applications to attend. However, Warden Pescor and Educational Director Bowman carefully screened the applicants and allowed only eight, of whom five had had previous A.A. experience, to come. Meetings are held at 6 o'clock on the first and third Tuesdays of each month with at least two members from the Springfield Group attending and with at least one new man going each time.