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March 1962

How AA Came to Them

AS an outside member of AA, I attended a meeting in a local jail each week, and boiled inside the whole time. What irked me was the fact that the inmates who wanted to attend were marched into the dining room under armed guards. Those cops stood around the room watching during the entire meeting and then made the inmates line up and march back to their cells.

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