Corrections
The Corrections Committee* covers three principal service activities. They include:
The Bridging the Gap/Pre-Release Program
This is a way for volunteer AAs to meet up with inmate AAs getting released from prison/jail who are trying to find their way to local AA meetings after release. AA volunteers agree to meet ex-inmate AAs to accompany them to their first few local meetings. This is essentially an extended Twelfth Step call. It is not intended to become a long-term AA relationship, but simply to help ease the newly-released member's transition to community-based AA and to help point them in the right direction.
Interested AAs may complete the following "Pre-Release Contact Information" form and return it to their local AA Corrections/Correctional Facilities committee:
For AAs inside New York State correctional facilities only, for release anywhere in New York State, use the "Pre-Release/Bridging the Gap" form attached at the bottom of this page and return it to SENY at the address provided. (The "Pre-Release/BTG" form is also attached in Spanish at the bottom of this page.)
The Corrections Correspondence Program
This program helps to connect inmate AA members with other AAs for the purpose of sharing AA experience, strength and hope through written correspondence.
Interested members should complete the "Corrections Correspondence" form, and return it to the General Service Office at the address provided.
Outreach to Corrections and other Criminal Justice Professionsals
The committee helps to inform corrections and criminal justice professionals about the AA program and Fellowship that they might better understand the principles, organization and limitations of AA, and offers AA cooperation where appropriate. (The New York State part of the Bridging the Gap program detailed above is an example of a program that was worked out cooperatively between the four AA areas in New York State and the State Department of Corrections.)
An example of AA's outreach to corrections and criminal justice professionals, SENY hosted its first "Corrections Connection Workshop" in cooperation with the New York State Department of Corrections (DOC) at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Ossining, NY in April of 2008. This workshop brought together both AA members active or interested in AA in corrections with staff from various levels of the DOC (from administration to correctional officers to treatment professionals) to discuss bringing AA's program and Fellowship to incarcerated alcoholics. A copy of the program from this event is available for download below.
The Corrections committee also works cooperatively with SENY's Cooperation with the Professional Community (CPC), Public Information, and Treatment Facilities committees and other similar local service committees where responsibilities and fields of activity may overlap. More information on SENY's Corrections activities is available in the SENY Service Handbook and on the Standing/Ad Hoc Committee Events page.
For more information contact:
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Some additional corrections resources
• AA for Legal and Corrections Professionals (Video)
• AA Guidelines: Corrections Committees (MG-06)
• A Message to Corrections Professionals (P-20)
• Corrections Workbook (M-45I)
• Other AAWS literature and information
• The Corrections Desk at GSO: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or tel. 212-870-3400.
* The committee name was changed from Correctional Facilities Committee to Corrections Committee on 16 January 2007 to better reflect the range of the committee's activities.
 | BTGNYform.pdf (Filesize: 62 Kb) Pre-Release/Bridging the Gap form for members in NYS correctional facliities. |
| | BTGNYformSp.pdf (Filesize: 53 Kb) Pre-Release/Bridging the Gap form for members in NYS correctional facliities. El formulario de solicitud en español. . |
| | Corr Conn Pgr Final Web Ed.pdf (Filesize: 36 Kb) 2008 Corrections Connection Program, Edited for the Web |