Judges Caging Kids for Cash

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Penn. Judges Get Kickbacks for Placing Youths in Privately Owned Jails

An unprecedented case of judicial corruption is unfolding in Pennsylvania. Several hundred families have filed a class-action lawsuit against two former judges who have pleaded guilty to taking bribes in return for placing youths in privately owned jails. Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan are said to have received $2.6 million for ensuring juvenile suspects were jailed in prisons operated by the companies PA Child Care and a sister company, Western PA Child Care. Some of the youths were jailed over the objections of their probation officers. An estimated 5,000 juveniles have been sentenced by Ciavarella since the scheme started in 2002. We speak to two youths sentenced by Ciavarella and to Bob Schwartz of the Juvenile Law Center.

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DdC222 Reviewed by DdC222 on 02-18-2009. Judges Caging Kids for Cash Penn. Judges Get Kickbacks for Placing Youths in Privately Owned Jails An unprecedented case of judicial corruption is unfolding in Pennsylvania. Several hundred families have filed a class-action lawsuit against two former judges who have pleaded guilty to taking bribes in return for placing youths in privately owned jails. Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan are said to have received $2.6 million for ensuring juvenile suspects were jailed in prisons operated by the companies PA Rating: 5

[ILLNotSick]

They have been locking up souls for trumped up charges to feed the greed from people profiting off the pain and trials of mankind for decades.
Its worse in the ADULT corrections, you can be "forced" to work. I am game to have our prison population working to repay debit, but treat them fairly and as humans not as free labor..

I wish the world could pull their heads out of the clouds and wake up to reality.


Good post
-world peace

[Esoteric416]

This is why there should'nt be any such thing as a privately owned prison.
The corparations that own these private prisons are in it to make money not to see justice served, so be prepared to see more corruption from judges, police and the guards at such facilities cause money talks and private prisons are big money.
I think people need to think more about this issue cause the mentality that prevades in the operation of private prisons is a dangerous one where people who wind up there are seen as comodeties to be exploited not a people at all. Maybe some of them deserve a more harsh treatment, but increasingly the people who are filling our prisons are just casualties of the war on "some" drugs; harmless people whos only crime was not using alcohol to get high.

[LOC NAR on probation]

The corruption of those that would call thier selves our judges is the most vile thing on Earth. They are not worth the 22 caliber I would put in the back of thier heads. However I would waste the cap to remove them from our society. Nothing on earth or any punishment can make what they have done right or even better. I bet they get a small fine and small jail time if any in a prison with lines on the ground for fences and catered meals. I say throw them to the wolves on death row.

[luciddreamer]

They should get the combined sentence of all the kids they put away but in a normal section of the prison.

That's another terrible thing about PP is the judges, narcs etc. have their own section. Can you imagine what that would be like? Playing cards, eating donuts and joking about the people they've put away with the prison guards.

I also recently found out we got private prisons in Aus now, it has never been in a newspaper here and we have 7 of them across the country. Apparently it's the largest per capita or population, can't remember which.
It really sickens me they can get away with this and it seems anything that fails in America, Australia takes up like.... a naked fat guy in a private prison with a CO standing behind him.

Sometimes I wish the people who ran countries were the ones who write Boston Legal. Failing that, I wish everyone, everywhere watched that show.

[killerweed420]

There is no ethics in the legal community. Between corrupt judges,prosecuting attorneys with political aspirations and dumber than shit defense attorneys, It has become a terrible system.
I read an article the other day where Cali is one of the worse jail systems because of inmates dieing for medical reasons.
Get on these juries people and make jury nullification work.