Reentry Anonymous

Reentry Anonymous is a twelve step program modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous describing itself as "a program for anyone who has the honest desire to stop living a life of criminality, needs ex-offender reentry support, or is ready to ask for help with their criminal addiction(s)". The program was originally started in 2005 in Tampa Florida and became officially registered with the State of Florida in 2010. The program is group oriented and is based on the twelve steps of AA.
The Reentry Anonymous program
Reentry Anonymous is a program of recovery for men and women coping with the consequences of incarceration, their criminal past, addiction to a life of crime, and the challenges of ex-offender reentry. Reentry Anonymous members share their experience, strength, and hope with each other in order to educate, inform, and support ex-offenders and recover from the hopeless cycle of recidivism through criminality and substance abuse. The program uses a 12 step model of recovery where ex-offenders are coached to reintegrate into society. They pass on their skills and support to others who care to change the cycle of recidivism in which they find themselves. Reentry Anonymous is the first group of its kind made up of the community it serves to adapt the 12 step program of recovery to ex-offender reentry. The program is free and has no dues or membership fees.
The nature of criminal addiction
Criminal addiction is defined by Reentry Anonymous as the condition of being abnormally dependent on some habit, especially compulsive dependency toward criminal activity or behavior. (2). The state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically habit-forming. (3). An illusionary intimate relationship with an object or event.

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