U.S . Judges Plead Guilty - Sold Children to Private Prisons

[Kair]

I was already told this by another person who is not blind.

I'm not blind? Thank you for noticing.

Many people are blind to the many downsides of egocentrism and the society that embraces egocentrism. They are blind because they fool themselves to believe it benefits them.

 

[Sean Steele]

For profit prison systems is by its very nature an engagement in slavery.

 

[Thaluikhain]

For profit prison systems is by its very nature an engagement in slavery.

Especially when inmates are given the option of working in prison factories or solitary confinement.

Apparently, the US has legislation against the import of items made by (blatant) slave labour, but masses amounts of stuff are made by forced labour of prisoners.

 

[Schadrach]

I have one word to say after I've read this:
Shit.

This is unbelievable, the lives of five thousand marred for the rest of their existence.

Well, at least the judges got just sentences - a whole two years!

-__________-

They should have been sentenced to the sum total aggregate time each of them sent children in for to one of the facilities they were receiving bribes from/for.

 

[Snowy Rainbow]

For profit prison systems is by its very nature an engagement in slavery.

Especially when inmates are given the option of working in prison factories or solitary confinement.

Apparently, the US has legislation against the import of items made by (blatant) slave labour, but masses amounts of stuff are made by forced labour of prisoners.

That logic makes perfect sense. /sarcasm

 

[Karma168]

As long as they weren't wrongfully convicting people to get the money it's not so bad (It's still really bad though)

I remember a story pretty similar to this on Law & Order a few years back, since most of these cases are loosely based on reality i'm guessing this isn't the first time it's happened

 

[Knusper]

Well to say I'm shocked is an understatement, but I'm also surprised that there's such thing as private prisons.

 

[Zoe Castillo]

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[CrashertheSmasher]

what was the point of them being put in jail?

 

[VaderMan92]

it doesn't sound like this article says they were innocent. These were all juvenile offenders (or around 18 because the media tends to count youths as anything under 25) and sure some of them might not have deserved to go to juvie the first offense but come on now. These were all criminals! it sounds like the problem here was that the judges were taking bribes to get the kids sent to particular jails. I don't think he was getting people thrown in jail who were innocent.

 

[Joepow]

Private jails? Holy crap. You learn something new every day I supose.

It is cases like this that make me wish I wasn't against execution.

 

[Wintermoot]

... you have private prisons?

*Googles some shit*

WE have private prisons too?!

/facepalm

Damn it, it's pretty hard to regain my faith in humanity when they keep doing shit like this.

Uhh...

/facepalm


(Now I have a headache.)

private prisons?
wasn't that the plot of the movie Fortress?

 

[Callate]

On Thursday, Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan entered guilty pleas on charges of wire fraud and income tax fraud. They're currently free on a one million dollar bail bond pending sentencing. Their plea agreements call for jail sentences of more than seven years. No charges have been filed against the private prisons that paid the bribes.

(emphasis mine)

I know this is how it goes sometimes- Al Capone was finally snagged for income tax evasion, of all things- but it makes me kind of sick that what they're being imprisoned for is wire fraud and income tax fraud. These men put children in prison for money, and the crimes they're being sentenced for make it sound like that would have been okay, so long as the money went through the proper channels.

 

[Brandon237]

2 years for scarring a shit load of kid's minds and possibly more? Makes me think even more about online streaming becoming a felony, and people doing that are just entertaining others.

Agreed, companies and those who support them, those who have money, get away with a slap on the wrist for all their shit, but anyone who does anything to ever so slightly cut into their profit margins is a horrific criminal spawned straight from a pool of Satan's semen. Capitalism needs a little more regulating, it may be the best political system, but damn do those with the money abuse it.

Those judges should have their balls cut off and they should spend their lives in prison for wrecking the lives of so many young people. First time offenders who are barely adults getting jail-time so that they get money? WTF?!

 

[Evilsanta]

This just...Sickening.

What the hell is wrong with some people?

Fuck, Some will just do about anything to get money...

 

[Thaluikhain]

it sounds like the problem here was that the judges were taking bribes to get the kids sent to particular jails.

It does, and it is an important distinction.

However, judges taking bribes for anything is a pretty big deal.

 

[Snowy Rainbow]

it doesn't sound like this article says they were innocent. These were all juvenile offenders (or around 18 because the media tends to count youths as anything under 25) and sure some of them might not have deserved to go to juvie the first offense but come on now. These were all criminals! it sounds like the problem here was that the judges were taking bribes to get the kids sent to particular jails. I don't think he was getting people thrown in jail who were innocent.

Well, shockingly, most of the few hundred children involved were innocent of any actual crime. Some were guilty in their own admission of extremely minor to non-existent offences (as in the case of the girl who slapped her teacher after her teacher slapped her) or were grossly over-sentenced, also (such as that girl serving one year in prison, to use the same example).

 

[Fooz]

i think some vigilante justice is in order