Elaine Bartlett Biography

Winning clemency from Gov. George E. Pataki Bartlett was released on January 26 2000 after serving 16 years. With a general equivalency diploma a two-year college diploma no job prospects and $40 from the state she embarked to start her life over.
Upon her release Bartlett was faced with the harsh reality that she had not been the only one serving time. The past 16 years of missed birthdays teacher meetings and home cooked meals had left a scar on her children and drained her family financially and emotionally. Her eldest son had given up a college basketball scholarship to look after his siblings one of her daughter's had moved in with another family and wanted nothing to do with Bartlett and her younger son turned to drugs. Her oldest daughter fell into a deep depression as she struggled to raise a child on her own. The punishment that was handed down that day in court had repercussions far beyond reprimanding Bartlett for her drug offense and now the burden fell back on society.
Bartlett is not alone in her struggle. Enacted in 1973 under former Gov. Nelson Rockefeller the statutes carry harsh mandatory sentences and have failed to snag drug kingpins and violent dealers while sweeping up scores of low-level runners like Bartlett. As other states mimicked New York's strict laws the US prison population exploded from 200000 then to 2 million today. Last year lawmakers failed to reform the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

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