First Line Friday is brought to you by Hoarding Books. Playing along is super easy. All you have to do is open the book nearest you and tell me what the first line is. Then check out the link to see the other first lines are offered up this week.
"Have you ever had a riot? I ask a recruiter from the Corrections Corporation of America."
For those who do not understand how terrible these for-profit prisons are, this is a must read. Actually, it should be a must-read anyway. The treatment-of-inmates link from slavery to prison plantations to for-profit prisons is clear and abhorrent.
Leave a comment and let me know what you think!
Leave a comment and let me know what you think!
Oh wow!!! This is so interesting!!!!! Thank you for sharing this line! Happy Friday!! My book is just a plain ol' fictional thriller. I'm going to look into this book now though!!
ReplyDeletehttps://donnasreadingchair.home.blog/2019/08/02/first-line-fridays-august-2nd-ruthware-thriller-readme-theturnofthekey/
I knew these prisons were bad, but I had no idea just how bad they'd gotten. The lack of funding, staff, and programs for inmates is appalling and can not be called anything but cruel and unusual punishment. So many people say that they are inmates, they chose to commit crimes, who cares? Well, everyone should care, because if we do not give them opportunities to better themselves or learn new skills while incarcerated, they will go right back to whatever they did that got them locked up in the first place. Let me know your thoughts when you read it!
DeleteI have a horrible suspicion that for-profit prisons are something else we'll be getting from America post-Boris-Brexit :-(
ReplyDeleteThe whole concept strikes me as heartless and counter-productive to most of society - everyone except those actually receiving the profits I guess. I don't think Anyone should profit from criminal behaviour and that includes the men who own the prisons!
I hope not. I was no fan of May, but that dumb oaf is much more dangerous.
DeleteDefinitely get a copy of this one if you can, it is well worth the time and ended up beng a fast read because I could not put it down. I agree whole-heartedly that it is absolutely heartless and counter-productive. If we want former inmates to integrate into society when they leave prison, they need access to classes that can give them skills. Otherwise what else can they do but return to whatever got them locked up the first time? It's sick.
Happy Friday! My first line is from “Brett, Billionaire Bodyguard” by Autumn Macarthur & Alexa Verde:
ReplyDelete“Brett Jarvis grimaced, yawned, and snatched up his ringing cell phone. Two a.m. phone calls rarely meant good news, especially in his business.”
Thank you for sharing your line Becky, Happy Friday!
Deletei know this is one of those books that will really tick me off. it's disgraceful!
ReplyDeletesherry @ fundinmental
Oh it definitely will make you mad. It is completely disgusting that this is allowed to happen. No one is suggesting we coddle inmates and turn prison into a free-for-all summer camp. But if you do not give inmates the skills the need to function outside of prison, how can we ever expect them to do so?
DeleteHappy Friday!
ReplyDeleteOn my blog, I'm sharing the first line from A Dangerous Legacy by Elizabeth Camden: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2019/08/01/first-line-friday-96/. I'm currently on chapter two of A Daring Venture by Camden. I'm on a Camden kick! 😀
"By the time Rosalind arrived at the crowded Manhattan restaurant to meet Mr. Drake, her nerves were wound as tight as a piano wire."
Hope you have an excellent weekend! 😀❤📚
Happy Friday to you as well, Nicole! Thanks for sharing your line, and I hope you have a blissfully book-filled weekend <3
DeleteWow that looks interesting!
ReplyDeleteOn my blog today I'm sharing the first few lines from A Glitter of Gold by Liz Johnson but I'm currently reading Whose Waves These Are by Amanda Dykes so I'll share the first line from chapter 24 here: "Bess's words travel with Annie down to the landing." This book is soo good so far! Hope you have a great weekend!
It is such a frustrating book, because these things should not be happening. But it is an important one and I hope many people who see this post read it. Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!
DeleteThat’s an explosive opening line! I’m curious to read more.
ReplyDeleteI’m sharing on my blog the first line from Love and Other Mistakes by Jessica Kate.
Natalie Groves eyed the bag of Gingerbread M&M’s on the other side of the office meeting room and prayed for a divine intervention of Red Sea proportions.
I do hope you read it, I hope everyone who has seen this post does, and passes it on and on and on. This for-profit prison industry is appalling and while I knew conditions were terrible, I did not know many o the concrete statistics the book provided.
Delete"This book is a part of the second feminist wave."
ReplyDeleteThe Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
Oooooh, you know I love any books on feminism. I look forward to your review!
DeleteIt'll be a little while. I'm off work next week so I'm "Book Blitzing" on Empires... I have a few 2nd Wave Feminist classics so far. I'll be picking up more as I come across them. I'm finding 'Eunuch' very dated so far but generally interesting.
DeleteI figured it would be a bit dated. Enjoy the time off!
DeleteToday I'm sharing the first lines from Midnight on the River Grey by Abigail Wilson: "'Who's there?' My mother's haunted whisper drew me to her bedside." Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeletehttps://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2019/08/first-line-fridays-midnight-on-river.html
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your line, Jolene. Hope you have a great weekend!
DeleteIt's amazing to me how in America everything is for- profit. Medicine, drugs, prisons... smh
ReplyDeleteDisgusting, isn't it? I knew these prisons were bad, horrible even. But I did not know specific statistics that are provided within. Truly appalling.
DeleteI had no idea you had for profit prisons! That's insane. It makes my wonder what model our prisons use... It's something I don't really think on but maybe having my eyes opened wouldn't be a bad thing at all!
ReplyDeleteit's disgusting, isn't it? It literally came out of slavery. Once slavery was abolished, prisoners were forced to work on plantations to continue where slave-labor had left off. Conditions were appalling, cruel-and-unusual-punishment doesn't even begin to describe what men and women (mainly African-Americans, of course) were subjected to.
DeleteThese private prisons do not care about anything but the money. Definitely give this one a read if you want to learn more - and I also encourage looking into your own prison system there and researching it a bit. I am not saying prisoners deserve to be coddled and prison should be like a luxury resort, but I do believe everyone deserves to be treated like a human being.
Well now it is Sunday. I got behind on checking out my friends' blogs. The prison book sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteLast night I started a 1964 novel by John Cheevers called The Wapshot Scandal. First line: "The snow began to fall into St Botolphs at four-fifteen on Christmas Eve." A pleasure to read as the thermometer hovered near 95 degrees!
Uuuuggghhhh, right?? SOOOOOO HOT, blech! Thanks for sharing your line :)
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