From the Inside Out

I was sentenced to one hundred years in a maximum security prison. Hopeless and desperate, I had no meaningful future ahead of me except to spend year after countless year watching life pass me by. I was supposed to have potential, a future, a career, a place in society. But my anxieties, resentments, and shortcomings always sabotaged me. Trying to fill the hole in my soul, I used many things, including alcohol, and it ultimately led to crime and incarceration. There was no way out for me, and no reason for me to try any longer, I thought. Then I was introduced to Alcoholics Anonymous in prison, and my life began to change from the inside out. What could a program of recovery offer me?