October Book Group – Friday: Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
October Book Group – Friday: Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
October 16 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Join us on Friday, October 16th at 12:30 pm for our Book Group Event. Please register!
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Author: Jennifer Gonnerman
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. 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.