Review: Bad Girls In A Mad World by Emily Throne
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Scary, Riveting, Fascinating
Emily Throne’s account of her time in the Orange County Jail in southern California is the stuff of nightmares for most law-abiding people. It’s probably something every parent reads and wants to force their children to read as a cautionary tale that shows what happens when you get mixed up with boyfriends/girlfriends involved with drugs.
The book affirms what we suspect, that jail is just a training school for criminals and a place where the law of the jungle rules with a revolving door sending criminals out into the world and then back again because nothing changes within the person who is the criminal.
Surprises
There’s more than a kernel of truth in the preceding sweeping statements, but there are also moments of compassion, deep-seated desire for love and acceptance, desperation for peace, and, ultimately, resignation to a life that will never be any better than rare moments of what most of us consider normal.
This book shows our penal system — our justice system — with all its faults. I have no answers to the problems inherent in the system, nor, it appears, do those who know far more about it than I. I’m old enough and cynical enough to think there’s actually no way to change anything. Then on days when I’m more optimistic, I think that maybe it could be changed — if the powers that be were willing to completely change everything and money were no object.
I guess all that is a roundabout way of saying this book is thought-provoking in the extreme. Absolutely read this book.
Takeaway Truth
Bad Girls in a Mad World: True Stories of Lethal Ladies Behind Bars by Emily Throne is a fascinating presentation on the human condition from the best of humanity to the worst. I applaud the author for not only having survived her two years in jail but also for penning this gripping memoir.
Joan Reeves aka SlingWords: The Word Slinging Adventures of Joan Reeves
2012-11-17 05:02:25
Source: http://slingwords.blogspot.com/2012/11/review-bad-girls-in-mad-world-by-emily.html
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