Sandy stayed at Delancey Street for twelve more years. She's been clean since 1988, but that doesn't mean she doesn't think about it anymore. "There's nothing else in the whole world like heroin, because heroin is nothing matters"
Sandie Alger is a 71-year-old woman with a very long rap sheet. She was in and out of prison throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and upped her game each time she got out. Prison, she says, is where you move "up the criminal ladder, just like the corporate ladder."