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Life on the Outside

By Jennifer Gonnerman

Life on the Outside Inspiring women

Life on the Outside

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Life on the Outside tells the story of Elaine Bartlett, who spent sixteen years in Bedford Hills prison for selling cocaine--a first offense--under New York's Rockefeller drug laws. The book opens on the morning of January 26, 2000, when Bartlett is set free and returns to New York City. At 42, she has virtually nothing: no money, no job, no real home. All she does have is a large and troubled family, including four children, who live in a decrepit housing project on the Lower East Side. "I left one prison to come home to another," Elaine says. Over the next months, she clashes with her daughters, hunts for a job, visits her son and husband in prison, negotiates the rules of parole, and campaigns for the repeal of the laws that led to her long prison term. Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam Records, says: "At a time when the prison-industrial complex is destroying African American families and neighborhoods, Elaine Bartlett is more than a survivor: she is a heroine. The future of our communities depends on women like her." Life on the Outside is a 2004 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
370
Release Date:
2005-02-01
Publication Date:
2005-02-01
Publisher:
St. Martins Press-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
03124245740274883449
ISBN13:
9780312424572
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
521 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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