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Claiming Our Soul

Abstract This article describes an “empowerment” group that was managed by mostly African-American women inmates at a prison facility in conjunction with a non-inmate “outside” sponsor and the ways in which the women used the group to address issues of loss of identity and role, grief, cultural and community isolation, spirituality, and recovery from addiction. Implications for social work practice are discussed.