Kids for Cash

[Cooter]

If this pisses you off then you should be ticked at the entire prison system and legal system as they stand. This is essentially the same BS that happens to minor drug users that can't afford good legal representation because it's too damned expensive. The only people getting rich are the prison developers while the municipalities that enforce these BS trivial laws end up broke. All of this while the real criminals roam free doing as they wish for the most part.

oh I am, trust me... it's repulsive to lock up people for minor drug crimes and traumatize and stigmatize them

[Tremor14]

yup. fuck CCA. the only good thing is they do hire some good looking women.

[AnthonyS]

If this pisses you off then you should be ticked at the entire prison system and legal system as they stand. This is essentially the same BS that happens to minor drug users that can't afford good legal representation because it's too damned expensive. The only people getting rich are the prison developers while the municipalities that enforce these BS trivial laws end up broke. All of this while the real criminals roam free doing as they wish for the most part.

[Cooter]

fuck hanging... lock his ass up and let him see what it feels like.

[Craizie]

This shit should be treason. Hang that mother fucker.

[Tremor14]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/08/11/139536686/pa-judge-sentenced-to-28-years-in-massive-juvenile-justice-bribery-scandal?sc=tw&cc=share

A Pennsylvania judge was sentenced to 28 years in prison in connection to a bribery scandal that roiled the state's juvenile justice system. Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was convicted of taking $1 million in bribes from developers of juvenile detention centers. The judge then presided over cases that would send juveniles to those same centers. The case came to be known as "kids-for-cash."

The AP adds:

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court tossed about 4,000 convictions issued by Ciavarella between 2003 and 2008, saying he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles, including the right to legal counsel and the right to intelligently enter a plea.
Ciavarella, 61, was tried and convicted of racketeering charges earlier this year. His attorneys had asked for a "reasonable" sentence in court papers, saying, in effect, that he's already been punished enough.
"The media attention to this matter has exceeded coverage given to many and almost all capital murders, and despite protestation, he will forever be unjustly branded as the 'Kids for Cash' judge," their sentencing memo said.
The Times Leader, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., reports that the court house in Scranton was overflowing this morning. More than a dozen people who said they had been affected by the judge's decision stood outside, awaiting the sentencing.

Jeff Pollins was in that crowd. His stepson was convicted by Ciavarella.

"These kids are still affected by it. It's like post traumatic stress disorder," Pollins told the Times Leader. "Our life is ruined. It's never going to be the same... I'd like to see that happen to him," he said.