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PA Judges Plead Guilty to Corruption in Juvenile Sentencing
Posted by jan4insight • 2/18/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: corruption, judges plead guilty, juvenile court system, pennsylvania
This is beyond the pale:
www.democracynow.org/2009/2/17/penn_judges_plead_guilty_to_taking
(I hope the link works - it's the lead headline story in DemocracyNow.org from Tues. 2/17)
Two Pennsylvania judges have pleaded guilty to taking kickbacks from private prison companies for sentincing juveniles to their facilities - without due process, without habeas corpus, without allowing the youth to have legal counsel.
Something like 5,000 kids were involved. They spent months, some nearly a year, in these privately-run juvenile prisons. Again, without any kind of due process. They (the judges) were just upping the body count so they could get their filthy lucre.
Unbelieveable.
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I'd say the combined sentence of everyone they sent away would be a fair deal here.-
@ csiunatic, Historic moment: I totally agree with this - and it's not often you & I agree on something
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Just put the judges in a maximum security prison for a while. They should get along real well with the other inmates.
The real issue here is privatization, though. Since Reagan, it's been the right-wing ideology that everything should be privatized, and this is what we get when we privatize the prison system. -
@ Sati, I agree. This is the (il)logical outcome of the privatization/deregulation frenzy, the long nightmare of which we're now waking up.
One thing I haven't learned from this breaking story, is what about the corporations & CEO's involved? After all, they praticipated in this scheme to increase their revenues - all of which came from the taxpayers!
More will be revealed, I'm sure. -
Ugh.
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Ugh is right!
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heh - I'm going to avoid a total rant right now against privatization and why I oppose it particularly for legal systems, crime and punishment, or law enforcement.
Must...avoid....aneurysm...
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This story has been breaking for several weeks. Has anyone heard of it before now, on any of the major news outlets? I'm thinking it's not getting the best press coverage, and that always makes me want to put on my tinfoil hat, ha ha.
Here's the press release from the FBI:
philadelphia.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/ph012609.htm-
I haven't been paying any attention to any mainstream media for news lately, so I honestly don't know.
I hadn't heard a bout it until you posted it here. -
Ha, I spoke too soon. I just checked my e mail and have received several alerts about this story
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So, the blogosphere rules again!
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As always. No wonder the major media outlets are hatin' on bloggers!
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