12-step emotional awareness program goes to core of criminality to promote healing

by Steve Brooks, Bay City News March 12, 2025March 11, 2025

Harry Goodall Jr. is the founder of an emotional awareness therapy (EAT) program at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. The program helps incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals develop awareness of the effects of misled anger. Goodall, a former gang member sentenced to life in prison, credits the principles of the program with helping him earn parole after 26 years. (Vincent O'Bannon via Bay City News)

A FORMER LONG BEACH gang member who was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a California prison credits emotional awareness therapy as the reason he was recently granted parole.

Harry C. Goodall Jr. spent most of his 26 years in prison participating in self-improvement programming. Over the years, he kept track of his transformation process and now uses his experience to facilitate a guided 12-step emotional awareness therapy (EAT) program inside San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.

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