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The land of John Murtha and Arlen Specter. I'm shocked.

I think the UN needs to start precision strikes on Penn. like they did Serbia. Take out the courthouses and the congressional offices. Decapitate the snake, as it were.

Major lawsuit against the state methinks.

Were these judges—— GASP——— Democrats????

You have all the rights you want if you have a good lawyer and lots of money. No lawyer or money? Then you have no rights.

In most cases I'd rather have private businesses run things than the government, but not prisons, not for juveniles and not for adults. We're seeing more and more of this and it's a mistake. These are for profit businesses that are going to try to increase their business, sometimes doing things as evil as this. Private prisons have grown into a multi-billion dollar industry and they constantly lobby for tougher laws so that more people will be locked up. In the juvenile court system there is every type of facility lobbying for government money. I've never heard of them paying kickbacks like this but they sure go out of their way to get probation officers and judges to send kids to their expensive drug treatment facilities and penal facilities and so on. I'd see a lot of this when I used to work as a public defender and had to handle everything, including juvenile court. They come and do their dog and pony shows and hand out all these glossy brochures and make their facilities sound so awesome, and then we'll send some of our kids to these facilities we'll find out about horrible conditions, abuse, sexual assaults. A lot of these places are just in it to make as much government money as possible. I'd see this especially with these drug treatment facilities because they would actually evaluate the kids and come in and testify and there were places that basically said every kid needed inpatient treatment as long as they had beds open, but when the beds were full any kid sent for evaluation needed their expensive outpatient treatment, never inpatient treatment at another facility. It was just a racket, the whole thing. The programs sucked. All they wanted was as much government money as possible. The welfare of these kids mattered not.