Pennsylvania Judge Sentenced For 28 Years For Selling Kids to Prison System

http://blog.blacknews.com ^ | Wednesday, May 1, 2013

[2banana]

Only bigger and bigger government can save us...

[gusopol3]

Guess which party? (It’s unmentionable.)

[noprogs]

See? Nothing to fear from law enforcement, unless you’re doing something wrong!

The police and courts are just looking out for you.

[Steely Tom]

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned some 4,000 convictions issued by him between 2003 and 2008, claiming he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles.

The Court didn't claim that he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles.

The Court determined that he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles,

[Zuben Elgenubi]

There is big, big money in the jail and prison businesses and this points out just one of the ways law enforcement gets rich.

[Navy Patriot]

Sentence and punishment far too lenient.

[allendale]

If there is any justice, he’ll meet some of those juveniles now grown in prison.

[christx30]

And that’s why I’m against the privatization of the prison industry, no matter how much it saves tax payers.

[Rockingham]

As in similar scandals involving systemic judicial corruption, there were years of rumors and irregular practices before a determined official investigation was launched. It was eventually shown that many people were involved at a criminal level of culpability.

[scrabblehack]

In Pa (at least when I lived there), judges ran on a non-partisan ticket. The parties did endorse certain ones though.
Do you know him to be a Democrat or endorsed by the Democrats?

[HereInTheHeartland]

His organs should be taken out and sold; with no anesthesia used.

[Born to Conserve]

The guy should be drawn and quartered. This is not just some ole crime, this is the kind of thing that starts a revolution. If you can’t trust the judges, you can’t trust the government.

[GSWarrior]

There was a Law and Order SUV episode about this very thing.

[Irenic]

He was convicted of accepting money in exchange for incarcerating thousands of adults and children into a prison facility owned by a developer who was paying him under the table. The kickbacks amounted to more than $1 million.

Disgusting.

Though most of our congresscritters would sell us all out for money and power.

[mountn man]

There was a Law and Order SUV episode about this very thing.

Let me guess. The judge was a known Tea Party member?

[gusopol3]

Wikipedia states he was elected on the Luzerne County Democratic ticket in 1995. Furthermore , his co-conspirator, Michael T. Conahan who is currently serving a 17 year prison term on the same charges , is also a Democrat. I know I frequently hear of retention elections in PA and they do run on party lines.

[Sherman Logan]

His “kids for cash” program has revealed that corruption is indeed within the prison system, mostly driven by the growth in private prisons seeking profits by any means necessary.

This doesn't "mostly" prove anything of the kind. It proves this particular judge and prison operator were corrupt, but of itself it doesn't say anything about "the system" at all.

[Wingy]

The story didn't say, so he must be a Democrat. If he was a Republican or Independent the story would have mentioned that in the first sentence.

You can take that to the bank.