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

[Dash-X]

Am I the only one who thought "Sucker Punch" when reading this?

OT: This is just kind of pathetic. There is nothing more evil than the almighty dollar and its slaves.

Kind of terrifying that they were so willing to literally sell away childrens' lives.

For paper for fucking paper of no real value backed by gold with no real value.
T

Actually it's not really backed by gold anymore -- just the word and say-so of the United States of America. Most of what circulates these days is just greenbacks. If memory serves, a number of countries have been considering getting away from the Dollar.

So, uh... Imagine how much worse that is... Being sold out for paper.

It doesn't surprise me, though. There's no such thing as an honorable judge. After all, in order to get there, they had to be lawyers at some point. Lawyers and honor are like tigers and lions. You won't see them in the same place under natural circumstances. And, if you do, the results (ligars) just don't work.

I hope they get raped thoroughly in prison. Which they probably will... Once the prison populace discovers that they were judges.

 

[benylor]

Utter scum. I hope they die in prison.

 

[-Dragmire-]

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!

-__________-

I know Wikipedia isn't the best source for info but it says the judge got 13 years

Criminal verdicts

On February 18, 2011, following a trial, a federal jury convicted former Luzerne County Court Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. on 12 of the 39 counts he faced including racketeering, a crime in which prosecutors said the former judge used children "as pawns to enrich himself." In convicting Ciavarella of racketeering, the jury agreed with prosecutors that he and another corrupt judge had taken an illegal payment of nearly $1 million from a juvenile detention center's builder and then hidden the money.[10]

The panel of six men and six women also found Ciavarella guilty of "honest services mail fraud" and of being a tax cheat, for failing to list that money and more on his annual public financial-disclosure forms and on four years of tax returns. In addition, they found him guilty of conspiring to launder money. The jurors acquitted Ciavarella of extortion and bribery in connection with $1.9 million that prosecutors said the judges extracted from the builder and owner of two juvenile-detention centers, including lurid allegations that Ciavarella shared in FedEx boxes stuffed with tens of thousands of dollars in cash.

Ciavarella faces a minimum sentence of 13 years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines.

Following Ciavarella's conviction, he and his lawyer appeared on the steps of the courthouse to give an impromptu press conference. The press conference was interrupted by Sandy Fonzo, whose son Edward Kenzakoski committed suicide after Ciavarella gave him a jail sentence, despite Kenzakoski's first-time offender status.

edit: source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

 

[Herbsk]

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!

-__________-

2 years is not enough....7 years is not enough - hell - a LIFE sentence would barely be enough.

I can't believe they got off with only 2 years in a (probably) white collar prision

Off topic: Capthca: aunandi alent - sounds like some kind of spell

 

[Smiles]

yay! I am relieved to learn my country doesn't have private run prisons, even though that idiot Stephen Harper tried to make one...

fricken conservatives ruinen my country...

 

[BlazeRaider]

Take all the sentences they wrongly handed out to those thousands of people, add up the years: That should be their prison sentence, along with fines of course. Damn though, the idea of private prisons just seem like such a bad idea to me.

 

[Grubnar]

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.

They were, in fact, getting people thrown in jail who were innocent.

Just thought you should know.

 

[jpoon]

Fucking scumbags. They (there are far more than just this goon) need to be put in jail themselves, it couldn't be any more fitting in this case.

We have a completely broken justice system here in the US, judges obviously have a HUGE part in destroying this nations checks & balances.

 

[BakaSmurf]

The death sentence, at times like these, you cannot deny that it is a bad thing.