Two judges pleaded guilty on Thursday to accepting more than $2.6 million from a private youth detention center 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.
10 April 2012
The marvels of privatisation
The really good thing about privatisation is that it provides more opportunities for income-generation, as this example shows - U.S. judges admit to jailing children for money | Reuters: (Reuters) -
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Others would cal them entrepreneurs! I hope they throw the book at the two scumbags
In unrestrained capitalism everything comes down to 'assets', even uppity teenagers.
The judge himself now becomes an asset on a balance sheet providing income and dividends to a select group of shareholders who have invested in the prison system.
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