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glassman
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jailing people should not be a business.
it is a responsibility of the state.

US judges admit jailing children for money

Posted 4 hours 36 minutes ago
Updated 4 hours 37 minutes ago

Two judges have pleaded guilty to accepting more than $US2.6 million ($3.9 million) from a private youth detention centre in Pennsylvania in return for giving hundreds of youths and teenagers long sentences.

Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan of the Court of Common Pleas in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, entered plea agreements in federal court in Scranton admitting that they took payoffs from PA Childcare and a sister company, Western PA Childcare, between 2003 and 2006.

"Your statement that I have disgraced my judgeship is true," Ciavarella wrote in a letter to the court.

Teenagers who came before Ciavarella in juvenile court often were sentenced to detention centres for minor offences that would typically have been classified as misdemeanours, according to the Juvenile Law Centre, a Philadelphia non-profit group.

One 17-year-old boy was sentenced to three months' detention for being in the company of another minor caught shoplifting.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/13/2490498.htm?section=world

how low can you sink?

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glassman
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i hope the company bribing them gets sued into bankruptcy

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CashCowMoo
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That is the worst. When you have people who are supposed to be the highest holders of law...and then this. Wow....

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raybond
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certain things are not ment for the private sector of society corrections is one of them

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T e x
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makes it pretty clear who the savages are...

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The Bigfoot
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you talking about me again tex?

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jordanreed
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what is the saying?..
I have met the enemy and it is us..?

something to that nature...

maybe one too many pops tonite at the gig,,but you get my drift.

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jordanreed
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quote:
Originally posted by CashCowMoo:
That is the worst. When you have people who are supposed to be the highest holders of law...and then this. Wow....

are you surprised?

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glassman
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quote:
Originally posted by CashCowMoo:
That is the worst. When you have people who are supposed to be the highest holders of law...and then this. Wow....

there is no law anymore cash, everything is for sale including peoples souls.

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bdgee
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Why complain about this now?

It is one of the inevitable results of freemarket dogma and mentality that WE allowed to run rampant and unregulated, in order to be seen worshiping at the feet of the priest of the brand of conservatism that has ruled the Nation's electorate for the last three decades or so.

Acting surprised is a bit late. The time for concern was years ago, before we turned control of our conscience over to political expedience.

The sin is committed.

NOW IT IS TIME FOR SHAME.

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