Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett : Book

This Hardcover Book item from Farrar, Straus and Giroux was reviewed on 29-Jul-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It is a very good book, but I am a bit skeptical of some of the content¤

2) Hardcover Book Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Unlike most prison stories which chronicle the lives of men caught in the system, Life on the Outside, sketches the life of Elaine Bartlett, a mother of four and victim of the Rockefeller Drug Laws. Jennifer Gonnerman, a Village Voice staff writer, draws an amazing picture of the hardships and suffering women face when they try to weave their way back into society after a long prison term without any training or support. Unmatched by any other book, Life on the Outside will give readers a glimpse of the multi-generational effect prison terms have on families.¤

3) Hardcover Book Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I feel as though I´ve now had an intimate look at life in the ghetto. This story of Elaine Bartlett is written with honesty and has no happy ending. It is a story of Rockefeller´s ridiculous drug laws and the impact they had on one family. If you´re looking for justice, you won´t find it here. Elaine and her family have had lives of struggle, poverty, anger, crime, prison, drug addiction, etc. Not pretty. It is a book every American should read. It is my hope (and I didn´t see any mention of this in the book) that the author, Jennifer Gonnerman, has given a percentage of the profits from this book to Elaine Bartlett. Without her, there would be no story. I want to thank Jennifer Gonnerman for writing this book. I hope Elaine has decorated her apartment and has some extra money stashed away in a safe place.¤

4) Hardcover Book Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. An important book. Several years ago, I read a lengthy rave review about this book in "The New York Times" and bought it. It´s about "breaking the cycle" of imprisonment and poverty in families. At a time when governments do little other than epitomize Benjamin Franklin´s definition of insanity ("doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results") this book makes clear why we should tell stakeholders to go to hell and do something other than Nixon-Bush´s "tough on crime," "punish don´t rehabilitate," etc. Buy it five copies at a time, read it, and pass it on (please)!!¤

5) Hardcover Book Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I was outraged that a first time offense could land this mother in prison for 15 to life is that justice No matter fact Hell to the No. Are drugs bad in the community well of course Yes. Although what she did was wrong by carrying those drugs to Albany she and her children should not have had to suffer sixteen years without her even five years would have been stiff but sufficient. I read one reviewer state that she was committing welfare fraud by working under the table and a host of other things anyway. But different people look at things differently you see I was born where Elaine was born and when our mothers went out and worked under the table it was called survival. When young white teens are allowed to work under the table it is called "teaching them responsibility" People kill me how they are so ready to judge. Anyway I once again will reiterate that in no way do I agree with her carrying any drugs because my mother was addicted to drugs which royally screwed up my family BUT before anyone judges Elaine let´s look at this a young mother with four children working on the side is very vunerable to be lured into the situation she was lured into by George Deets. And to think good people allowed this to happen and are still allowing this to happen cause´ why is Nathan still sitting in prison for four ounces worth of cocaine.
To the Author I applaud you for writing Elaine´s story with DIGNITY.¤

6) Hardcover Book Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

A groundbreaking work of reportage on the hidden consequences of America´s prison boom

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 harsh Rockefeller drug laws. The book opens on the morning of January 26, 2000, when she is set free, having received clemency from the governor. At forty-two, Elaine has virtually nothing: no money, no job, no real home.

What she does have is a large and troubled family, including four children, who live in a decrepit Lower East Side housing project. "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 her husband in prison, negotiates the rules of parole, searches for her own home-and campaigns for the repeal of the sentencing guidelines that led to her long prison term.

In recent years, the United States has imprisoned more than two million people while making few preparations for their eventual release. Now these prisoners are coming home in record numbers, as unprepared for "life on the outside" as society is for them. Writing with a passion and an empathy that recall There Are No Children Here and Cold New World, Jennifer Gonnerman calls attention to this mounting national crisis by crafting an intimate family portrait-a story of struggle and survival, guilt and forgiveness, loneliness and love.

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