A Twentieth Century Miracle

DURING my many years in prison work I have spoken for conventions, service clubs and many other organizations, but to be invited to address the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary at this international convention is--to me--my finest hour. I have been asked to address you on the subject of AA and prisons. It was with humility that I accepted this invitation, and yet, as I look back over the sixteen years during which we have had an AA program in the Indiana State Prison, I feel that I could come before you with something of interest, as a representative not only of the members of our AA fellowship in our institution, but as a representative of all the prison administrators who have seen the wisdom of the AA program. . . .