SA Correctional Facilities Committee

It is an exciting time to be in correctional service. Brian from Sacramento recently gave a seminar to a local diocese on how to develop SA at the New Folsom State Prison. From California to Poland and elsewhere we are building bridges with religious communities aligned with the SA sobriety definition. Many religions hold that prison has a rehabilitative purpose. Prisoners look and act like you and me. As the healing community joins SACFC in pointing out the challenges for the prisoner and parolee wanting the spiritual solution in recovery from a sexual past, fewer prisons and administrators are justified in looking the other way.

We hope to change the way the prison community views SA recovery, from those who work with volunteer programs to the behavioral careerists and psychological experts, along with clergy. I wrote a blog recently about Larry B. in California who is working with prisoners as an advocate of contemplative work or the 11th Step. The work being done by Ray Leonardini and others who conduct spiritual exchanges helps connect with the HP in prison. But, for every friend of SA, many more administrators, chaplains and supervisors will need to have access to our education about the effectiveness of our 12 Step program and to a safety protocol for the sexaholics in prison.

In 2018, I ask your help in working with your local SA communities to pledge to take action. Just as we’re discovering allies in the religious community, our local intergroups can become foundries of ideas. To be truly involved in service means intensive work in recovery, through visitations and sponsoring by mail. The SACFC is the only Board of Trustees committee whose job is to educate prison administrators and actively recruit from the ranks of the entire service structure. SACFC remains, for now, a small number of committed trusted servants. With your help we can make progress. By God’s grace.

In grateful service,