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Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett: Author: Jennifer Gonnerman: Edition: reprint: Publisher: Macmillan, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects4/5(1). 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 4/5(1). Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett, published in , is a nonfiction account of the incarceration of New Yorker and mother of four Elaine Bartlett on felony drug charges and her struggle to reenter society following her release after 16 years in prison. Written by Jennifer Gonnerman, a staff writer for The New Yorker, the book is an indictment of the “Rockefeller laws,” .

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Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett: Author: Jennifer Gonnerman: Edition: reprint: Publisher: Macmillan, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects. Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett, published in , is a nonfiction account of the incarceration of New Yorker and mother of four Elaine Bartlett on felony drug charges and her struggle to reenter society following her release after 16 years in prison. Written by Jennifer Gonnerman, a staff writer for The New Yorker, the book is an indictment of the “Rockefeller laws,” New York statues that imposed harsher sentences for crimes involving the possession and sale. Elaine's life on the outside starts feeling like another prison. It takes her months to get a job and trying to keep it while living in the tiny, filthy apartment is no easy task. Through the years, Elaine loses one brother to AIDS, another is stabbed and dies in the hospital, her mother has a heart attack and dies and her other siblings are falling apart.