Clang of Steel

Taking an AA meeting into the womens' recovery pod in our county jail is tantamount to doing Twelfth-Step work en masse. Many of the 28 women have never been to an AA meeting; our Tuesday morning meeting is called Bridge the Gap. What we do is a kind of basic AA 101. We try to inspire hope in many women who have been through the revolving door of the jail many times. Being in the recovery pod itself is different for some, and offers the inmates new information and perhaps the first glimmer of a different life, a life without drinking.