U.S. Judges admit to jailing children for money Posted: 10 months ago by lkrofct
Two judges pleaded guilty on Thursday to accepting more than $2.6 million from a private youth detention centre in Pennsylvania in return for giving hundreds of youths and teenagers long sentences.

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Posted: 10 months ago by BrownTrout:
"Your statement that I have disgraced my judgeship is true," Ciavarella wrote in a letter to the court. "My actions have destroyed everything I worked to accomplish and I have only myself to blame."

How touching... no mention of all the kids lives he f**ked up.
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Posted: 10 months ago by juaner899:
I wonder how often this happens.

It makes me sick to think about all those kids who will carry this stigma for the rest of their lives. No mater were they go, they will always be remembered as being criminals. Sad
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Posted: 10 months ago by fentwin:
Stories like this are why I don't approve of private prisons being run for profit.
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Posted: 10 months ago by fugazi:
you would think people might finally begin to understand that the whole f**king thing is a sham...from top to bottom.

but no.

not a damn gun will be raised, not a single bucket of tar lifted.

at this point, everyone deserves what they are going to get.
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Posted: 9 months ago by meggysue:
Shame on them. They should be stripped of power for the rest of their life. If it were in MY power, they wouldn't even be able to decide if they could go to the loo without permission for the first year.
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