Pennsylvania judge sentenced to 28 years in prison for selling teens to prisons
 

http://www.examiner.com/article/penn...ens-to-prisons

"Disgraced Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for conspiring with private prisons to sentence juvenile offenders to maximum sentences for bribes and kickbacks which totaled millions of dollars. He was also ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution.

In the private prison industry the more time an inmate spends in a facility, the more of a profit is reaped from the state. Ciavearella was a figurehead in a conspiracy in the state of Pennsylvania which saw thousands of young men and women unjustly punished and penalized in the name of corporate profit.

According to allgov.com Ciavearella's cases from 2003 - 2008 were reviewed by a special investigative panel and later by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and it was found that upwards of 5,000 young men and women were denied their constitutional rights, and therefore all of their convictions were dismissed and were summarily released.

During his sentencing Ciavarella was defiant, claiming he had broken no laws and claimed the money he received was a legitimate 'finder's fee.' Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Zubrod said comments such as these were typical of Ciavarella, according to the local reporting of citizensvoice.com:"

From http://www.examiner.com/article/penn...ens-to-prisons

Perhaps he was CurrentlySober's judge

The whole private prison system is so fucked up

For sure, this ain't working :error

Welcome to 2009

He was sentencing kids to jail time for things like skipping school, or smoking cigarettes..... How do the prosecutors and DA not step in and do something? There needs to be more people accountable for this whole deal.

ridiculous:2 cents:

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

hard to believe

for sure..........

I think I saw this on L&O Criminal Intent...but usually the tv show is based on the news, not the other way around! LOL!

Disgusting he is basically a slaver

The private prisons are paid by the head. The higher the occupancy rate, the higher their profit.

It is definitely a sad statement of where the country is going when there is a strong financial incentive to imprison people for minor crimes and give them long sentences, all to make a buck. It has ceased to be about punishment and rehabilitation.

there are probably many more out there doing it too.

I did 18 months in a privately run, church owned children's home when I was 13 and had skipped a bunch of school. Sentenced by a NY state family court judge. First "offense." Was feeling lost after my father had died and threw our family into a mess. Thank god I was put away for everyone's own good and my mother was made to pay for it.

She could have placed me there herself and then she would have had the ability to pull me out after 3 months. Darn the luck that nobody let her know that.



I hope that asshole rots from the inside out. :321GFY

Yes I was going to say the same thing!

america is scary....

I was thinking this myself, before I read this post lol

Thing is, that America is a GREAT COUNTRY... But some of the rules regarding 'fringe' people like me, leave a LOT to be desired :(

Its true though. They kept me in min security for EXACTLY the full 6 months to the day, that they could, before deporting me. Hence making the most money out of someone like myself, who was risk free and simply a visa-overstay...

Dont get me wrong - I dont 'begrudge' my 6 months - Yes, I did overstay - But only cause I loved america so much... I never committed an actual crime.

So dont hate the player - Hate the system. If there had been no $$$ incentive for them to keep me there - I'd have been on the first flight out. But there was... So I wasnt :(

He should be executed. Blatant and willful exercise of public power to torment and harm juveniles for personal gain is his crime. Some of the children committed suicide. He sent a 10 year old boy to juvenile for no reason. He did this in order to receive a "finder's fee" (his words).

For such a monstrous abuse of granted power, he should be executed.

28 years among prisoners who know who he is and what he did will be far worse for him than any quick execution.

yeah some countries wont do shit about it. this i think is a time to seek your own justice. :2 cents:

What's more fucked up is he got away with it for THAT long.

Skin that fucker alive!!!!!

He'll be protected by his supporters and let out in 6 years. He knows it. He will say he did nothing wrong, and his family will support him.

Prison justice is for the poor. Powerful people do just fine.

"Milken's compensation, while head of the high-yield bond department at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the late 1980s, exceeded $1 billion in a four-year period, a new record for US income at that time.[7] With an estimated net worth of around $2 billion as of 2010, he is ranked by Forbes magazine as the 488th richest person in the world.[8] Much of that wealth comes from his success as a bond trader; he only had four losing months in 17 years of trading.[9]"

um, why do ya think pot is banned eh? the sytem is based on PROFIT and they make the most of their citizens by imprisoning them for lame shit like smoking pot at home and if you get sick you pay your ass off to some profitably working health care system (profitable for the system, not for YOU) :disgust

how is that getting the most money out of you? Were you at a work camp? Or just sitting on your ass for six months

the private prison gets your tax dollars to lock up people.

I can't help thinking somebody should have noticed this before.

Yes - Thats it. For every person they have in custody, they receive a payment for. Provided it costs less to house and feed them, than the payment per person, they make money.

saw the same episode

gotta love the American "judicial" system!

jan brewer makes a good coin

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_703251.html

You really got to love it, to a point, i mean you really do.. i am serious here, compared to the piss poor effort made by the Australian "judicial" system! Taking the sentencing of pedophiles for example.

Ray Hadley and peter fox, royal commission, as an example of the piss poor effort the Australian "judicial" system offers, sentences way to short, fucken way to short.

And to think I used to work for one of the facilities that he sent kids to (though I don't think they were ever involved in the kids for cash case).

Free America is becoming Nazi America... by turning its own kids to SLAVES.

his supporters? In prison?? Yeah some politician would love to jump in and take his side in a case like this... get a grip..

i can think of no lower human being than he who imprisons others for his own profits.

Sad when people with great power act crazy...

yes, they can ... :disgust

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