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

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those profits shoudd be gotten back on behalf of the State. The total profit garnered from those people, in that prison, for that specific period of time should be calculated, and then stripped from that Company. It was money they should NOT have been making at the State's expense. They can either agree, or those WRONGLY CONVICTED, with the help of the State, should file one hellofa Class Action Lawsuit. The Judge is already convicted for his complicity in this scam, there si NO WAY those people would lose.

Kind of like why they didn't send the banksters to jail

And the corporates who bribed the judge need to be sent away also.

2003 and 2007. They walked around free until 2011, while childrens' lives were ruined. There is no justice until everyone involved is rotting in prison.

I'm out of this thread, can't even celebrate this effing bastard going to prison with friends.

5,000 kids X how ever many years their sentences were.

Of all the disgusting things we have seen come to pass in the last few decades, the odious and overtly racial war on drugs and its offshoot of privatized, for-profit prisons have got to be in the top five.

The sheer conflict of interest is astounding, but this calls into question the very legitimacy of the law. Why should any man respect and abide by the law when it is so clear day after day that the law has become pliable to the almighty dollar to the point of being damaged beyond repair?

We have presidents above and beyond the law, congressmen and senators above and beyond the law, bankers and investors and corporations above and beyond the law....and now the judiciary itself is shown to be nothing more than another money-making avenue for enhanced revenues.

Anytime a businessman or corporate shill says "revenue", grab your wallet and hold tight because to them all it means is prying away more of YOUR money to shore up THEIR profits.

I hope the prison officials who paid the bribes are up next and I hope they all do time in general population with a good dose of rumors from the guards that they were child molesters on the outside....

... privatized. As soon as they go private, this kind of stuff starts happening. So glad they have this guy behind bards where he belongs.

Private prisons need to be abolished, period.

correctly that is a major crime too.

Just kidding! I can only hope there's a suitable place in hell for him and the people who bribed him and every bloodsucking capitalist who seeks to get rich in the "private prison" industry.

28 years is only a start.

when money talks justice walks
We need to end this private prison system, legalize cannabis and get the money out now.

Most of us here at DU are dead set against the Prison-Industrial Complex .... So that question cannot be directed to us ...

Yes to the last sentence ...

Not that I mind that the OP brings the case and the sentencing to light again.

Here is a link to one of the August 2011 news stories about the sentencing:

CIAVARELLA SENTENCED TO 28 YEARS, SURRENDERS TO U.S. MARSHALS

At the link:
A defiant Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. was sentenced to 28 years in prison and ordered to pay $965,000 in restitution this morning after reading a statement to the court in which he denied trading "kids for cash."

Source: thetimes-tribune.com
August 11, 2011

The full address for the link is as follows:
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/ciavarella-sentenced-to-28-years-surrenders-to-u-s-marshals-1.1187352

I can't remember which one, but two kids were suicides directly as a result of this jackass putting them into jail for minor offenses. 28 years is not good enough. It should have life in solitary confinement. Rot in hell asshole!

They show the creep in Michael Moore's Capitalism a Love Story. I really feel for the parents

Privately owned prisons for profit! What could go wrong??

I'm very glad this corrupt asshole is going to prison. I wish more such malefactors would be brought to account.

That make me consider more aggressive ways to Vent my anger and Disgust at the whole right wing adherents, But all that would do is give them a whining point about how they are ABUSED!, Like they abuse the people

In August 2011, Ciavarella was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for his involvement in the Kids for Cash scandal.

Wassup with this OP?

This is pure unmitigated greed and it is heinous.

This asshat should get 28 years per kid that he put into a private prison. Consecutively!

Let him rot there. Not gonna be too popular in the pokey.

I'm sure he's not an isolated case.
He just got caught.

I can only hope those poor kids can sue the state

"...found that upwards of 5,000 young men and women were denied their constitutional rights, and therefore all of their..."

What a nightmare for these folks.

finally government officials are held accountable!

Just a cost of doing business, and I'll bet no one else, not the prison CEOs, not anybody else, was even charged.

All they need is another greedy asshole and still in business!

Cut that crap out, Yer Honors everywhere.

passed its strict immigration law? It was written by the private prison people.

This judge happened to get caught, but he is probably not the only one who has done this. It's a predictable outcome of having for-profit prisons.

every fucking kid he sentenced should get $1.2 mill for what he did to them!

If we are going to privatize prisons, we should really change the financial incentive.

Perhaps a "per person" not a per year profit rate, IE they get actual cost plus a one time profit fee when the prisoner first is introduced into the system. And they don't get that fee again if they re-offend and end up back in lockup, but they do get a bonus every 10 years a released prisoner does not get into legal trouble. Just to add an incentive to try and rehabilitate.

Few ever come out the same regardless of their petty crime.

Bastard deserves the worst, indeed.

Here is the two year old story:

http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/judge-sentenced-to-28-years-in-prison-for-selling-kids-to-private-prisons?news=843116

It's at the most local of levels Americans have no rights. The local govs.are so corrupt, they let this happen thousands of times.

Ciavarella has been cooling his heels in the big house for about 2 years. Juvenile offenders whose cases were heard by this creep were released and several of them deserved to be incarcerated. The whole scam created one huge mess in my county. The good news is the juvenile system in our county court was flipped on its head.

any trust in the education system -

The Examiner.com is not a reputable news source.
The Examiner.com has over 100,000 folks that contribute stories.
And in this case the author of the OP article reported on a story that is very old.

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