Program

Behind the Walls

In-person NA meetings inside correctional facilities

Behind the Walls (BTW) is the heart of the Corrections Workgroup's service: regular, in-person Narcotics Anonymous meetings held inside Florida's correctional institutions, carried in by trained and cleared outside volunteers.

These aren't improvised gatherings. Every BTW meeting follows a structured model built on decades of "Behind the Walls" experience from NA programs across the United States — and it's explicitly designed so that the meeting an inmate attends inside matches what they'll find in the community after release. Same format, same literature, same program.

How a BTW meeting works

Volunteers have a minimum of one year clean, complete all Florida DOC-required training, and pass background checks through the DOC's Office of Programs and Re-entry Volunteer Services.
Entry is gender-matched — male volunteers into male facilities, female volunteers into female facilities.
Meetings focus on the 12 Steps and use only worldwide Fellowship-Approved NA literature, provided free in English and Spanish where available.
The long-term goal is for inmates to lead the meetings themselves, with outside volunteers eventually attending as participants rather than chairpersons.

Fidelity to the model is the whole point — it's what separates a CW meeting from a meeting that merely exists. The Workgroup maintains no affiliation with any outside organization.

Where meetings are running

The Coverage Map tracks every facility in the state: where CW meetings are active, where meetings exist but aren't CW-affiliated, and where there's no known meeting at all.

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