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Posted on 08/18/2022 5:54:08 PM PDT by CodeToad
Two Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200m to hundreds who fell victim to their crimes.
US district judge Christopher Conner awarded $106m in compensatory damages and $100m in punitive damages to nearly 300 people in a long-running civil suit against the judges, writing the plaintiffs are “the tragic human casualties of a scandal of epic proportions”.
In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8m in illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I remember when this story was current. It sure takes a long time for things to crank through the system.
Do the judges have $200 million?
No idea but I always thought a court never ordered restitution unless there was an expectation of that ability.
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Sounds like a libtard scam
Absolutely not.
These judges got kickbacks for sentencing juveniles to the taxpayer funded facilities.
If that’s what they do with children what are corrupt judges doing when they send adults to prison?
The article says their income from the scam was $2millionish. Where does the rest come from?
These are two corrupt Democrap judges.
Often insurance and expected future earnings, not to mention current holdings.
P.S. Restitution can now also be tax deductible. :)
Maybe they had insurance as judges. I can’t imagine there being a private policy.
I am trying to understand what exactly was wrong here...
These were “guilty” kids right? and... this was being offered as an alternative to jail I assume right?
who exactly is the victim here?
This is a civil case.
Was there a prior criminal conviction?
Wow, that is one of the most evil things I’ve ever heard. You have expectations that judges will be fair and unbiased in their judging. To convict CHILDREN and send them to for-profit jails for massive kick-backs is horrendous. Those guys should swing.
Seriously?
Were the kids really guilty? Or did he convict them wrongly to send them to the for-profit jail for kickbacks.
Even IF they were guilty, sending convicted criminals to for-profit jails for kickbacks is reprehensible.
I’d easily believe that they found the kids “guilty” to fee the jail system and collect their kickbacks.
There were prior threads here on FR awhile back. Do not know the keys word(s) to find them.
Recall that kids were sentenced greater than their infractions and crimes.
“These are two corrupt Democrap judges.”
But you repeat yourself.
CC
how is that any different than a policeman giving out tickets to meet a quota?
or police who confiscate drug dealers stuff to fund their departments
there are lots of situations where government officials benefit directly or indirectly from enforcing laws.
Now if it can be proven they found innocent people guilty, then yeah, lock them up. But if it was either this or a REAL JAIL. I would suspect the kids were happy to have been offered this alternative.
No, no, no, no and no.
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