![]() ![]() She stopped doing drugs in 1997, because of the help she received from the CLARE Foundation. It was hard to find a rehabilitation center that she could afford, and finally she found the CLARE Foundation in Santa Monica. Determined to prove him wrong, Burton tried to find a drug treatment facility that was away from her home neighborhood, where it would be too easy to fall back into her old patterns of addiction. Upon her last release, a prison guard told her that he would see her in prison again soon. She was trapped in a vicious cycle, where she could not find a job, did not have housing, and would eventually get caught and placed back in prison again. She went in and out of prison six times during the 1980s and the 1990s, each time she was released with limited money, no ID, and no social security card. ![]() She eventually was arrested and jailed for crack cocaine. She became addicted to crack cocaine while living in Watts, Los Angeles. Consumed with grief and heartbreak, and without any access to therapy, Burton turned to alcohol and drugs. Her five-year-old son, Marque Hamilton, was accidentally hit and killed by a police cruiser in 1982. ![]() Her upbringing was full of turmoil, and she struggled constantly. Life īurton was born and raised in housing projects in East Los Angeles. She was named a CNN Hero in 2010 and a Purpose Prize winner in 2012. Susan Burton is an activist based in Los Angeles, United States who works with formerly incarcerated people and founded the nonprofit organization, A New Way of Life. ![]()
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