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April 1963

Keep AA Alive in Our Jails!

It's the only light in a dark picture, a world-famous penologist tells us

OF all the dark corners of the earth in which Alcoholics Anonymous has taken root and grown to mature strength, the 502 prison and jail groups with over 20,000 members and the 445 groups in mental, veterans', tubercular and other hospitals with about eleven thousand members give me the greatest personal satisfaction, because of my professional career of 45 years in the correctional field and my life-long interest also in the field of mental health.

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