Posted on 02/19/2011 7:03:44 PM PST by ColdOne
(Reuters) - A federal jury on Friday found a former Pennsylvania judge guilty in a so-called kids-for-cash scheme, in which he took money in exchange for sending juvenile offenders to for-profit detention centers.
Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was accused of taking $2.8 million in bribes and kickbacks for putting juveniles into detention centers owned by friends.
The jury in Scranton found him guilty of racketeering, money-laundering conspiracy, fraud and filing false income tax returns.
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Democrat...?
This doesn’t surprise me. The judiciary in this country is out of control. They believe they are gods.
If only judges were allowed to marry...
Oddly the judge had no political affiliation.
There is something like 300 private, for profit prisons in the country. That wouldn’t include so-called ‘youth centers’. No one knows who the ‘investors’ are. Are they Judges, lawyers?
Even the public/gov prisons. The prison guard unions are very powerful and have supported more laws making more once free things, illegal, and supported longer sentences. All of which requiring more prisons and hiring more guards.
Think of the teacher unions and the poor service and poor product they put out. Ditto for the whole, so-called criminal justice racket. It’s bigger business, bigger money, employs more people then classic crime.
A lot of local, county prisons are little more than debtors prisons, and lock up’s for low rent goofs and banged upped addicts, drunk losers.
Democrat
No mention of party in title, subtitle, first sentence, or first paragraph...therefore its a democrat.
Seems like straight out of a 1970s made for tv prison flick.
We're shocked...!
I think I read where his party affiliation wasn’t mentioned at all in the first several articles. Eventually it was mentioned but buried deep.
He deserves the death penalty, after 10 years in a state jail’s general population
the rule of law is dead
RIP America 1776 - 2008
I am sure they will re-correct it to show he was a evil racist republican.
Sounds like he was a stalwart follower of the highest bidder party.
Are there any other types...?
Are there any other types...?
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