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Penn Judge gets 28 for selling teens to private prisons
The government is not there to protect you. The only way to stop the corruption happening every day is to stop allowing others the power to control your life and your money.
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:
http://www.copblock.org/33684/pennsylvania-judge-sentenced-to-28-ye...
Tags: IncarceratedAmerica, corruption, fraud, prisons, state
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:
http://www.copblock.org/33684/pennsylvania-judge-sentenced-to-28-ye...
Tags: IncarceratedAmerica, corruption, fraud, prisons, state
The big guys, corruption and greed, only sought out the little guy in privatization. It happens in The White House, Wallstreet, state govt, local govt, and down the line. Nothing has changed for decades except we have whistle blowers with moral standards. Now the whistle blowers are being interrogated and ridiculed.
This has been going on here locally with a drug and alcohol rehab place. There are numerous places where one can go have an evaluation, but the courts only will take evaluations from this one place.... It's corruption
Yup, I totally agree.
This has everything to do with privatization. This one instance is simply a symptom of a larger problem and that is, the people have bought into the big lie that you can take X number of dollars, skim a profit off it, and still provide the same level of services.
People can't do simple math and big business and their lobbyists have sold us on a really stupid idea.
People can't do simple math and big business and their lobbyists have sold us on a really stupid idea.
So in other words, this practice would also explain why our jails and prison systems are overflowing with low level crimes? Because they get funding for each person jailed or put in prison? Well aint that just peachy! Might also explain why they let the bad ones out early. Cause they know they will offend again and they can get double the money for them? geeze
This has nothing to do with privatization! This is strictly corruption and greed. These two Judges were sentencing juveniles, whether flipping off the cops, being truant from school, shoplifting, underage drinking, etc.to a boot camp in which the Judges received financial compensation for sending them there. In most cases the families could not afford an attorney so they opted the public defenders. The public defenders advised to plead guilty and they would most likely get community service and a slap on their wrists. Well that didnt happen. Repeatedly juveniles were thrown into boot camp to "teach them a lesson"! Most of them spent at least 3 months in the boot camp. The more severe crimes spent up to one year in the camp. Should I mention that the longer the juvenile I spent in the boot camp the larger the financial gain it was due to the Judge?
Honestly this just makes me sick! I live very close to these counties and have heard this unfold from the beginning. These type of people, looking only for financial gains, are only sorry they got caught! To the two young men who committed suicide while being detained there...RIP....you shouldnt have been there in the first place. We let you down
Honestly this just makes me sick! I live very close to these counties and have heard this unfold from the beginning. These type of people, looking only for financial gains, are only sorry they got caught! To the two young men who committed suicide while being detained there...RIP....you shouldnt have been there in the first place. We let you down
"See what happens when we privatize?..."
This has nothing to do with privatization... it has everything to do with a corrupt individual taking advantage of no oversight.
Just because something is privatized, doesn't mean that it won't & doesn't require oversight of some type.
I guess you can blame privatization to a point, but at the end of the day, blame the judge, not privatization.
We have too many law-breakers, and not enough state-institutions to house them. Private industry saw a demand, and build a system to house said demand. No one's fault but this corrupt judge, that he skewed the supply'chain end of things.
I see your point Teko, but I think blame should rest with the judge, not privatization.
This has nothing to do with privatization... it has everything to do with a corrupt individual taking advantage of no oversight.
Just because something is privatized, doesn't mean that it won't & doesn't require oversight of some type.
I guess you can blame privatization to a point, but at the end of the day, blame the judge, not privatization.
We have too many law-breakers, and not enough state-institutions to house them. Private industry saw a demand, and build a system to house said demand. No one's fault but this corrupt judge, that he skewed the supply'chain end of things.
I see your point Teko, but I think blame should rest with the judge, not privatization.
*works or not as the case often seems to be.
I am bringing this post back up because I reread a thread from the Hep.C forum by the sister of a guy who was in jail for 6 months for evasion of child support. He was dying of liver disease and they put him in a Federal prison for "better medical care."
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Hepatitis-C/My-brother-was-told-he-is-in-liver-failure/show/1802460
It is a real eye opener about how the prison system.
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Hepatitis-C/My-brother-was-told-he-is-in-liver-failure/show/1802460
It is a real eye opener about how the prison system.
OMG, this is like an urban legend.
It is terrifying to think this as happening recently in the U.S. What a nightmare.
See what happens when we privatize?
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Absolutely!
It is terrifying to think this as happening recently in the U.S. What a nightmare.
See what happens when we privatize?
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Absolutely!
OMG...What in the world??...
See what happens when we privatize?
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