Allen is a drug-slinging hustler. Rosalyn is a heroin-addicted shoplifter. Their lives are so entangled in the correctional system that it’s hard to remember where they went wrong. But for these two petty criminals, both of whom have been to jail more times than they care to recall, getting out of New York City’s Rikers Island is another chance to finally turn their lives around. It won’t be easy.
Allen and Rosalyn are not alone. Nationally, mandatory sentencing laws have helped put one in a hundred adult Americans behind bars. Nine million people are released from jail each year. Three-quarters will go back. Even as the nation begins to re-examine mandatory sentencing initiatives like New York’s Rockefeller Drug Laws, ex-offenders still hit the streets every day.
From the moment Allen and Rosalyn are set free, After the Island follows the dark struggle of the newly liberated. They will confront their own demons, try to atone for years apart from their families, and examine the effectiveness of their incarceration.
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