Yesterday, February 13, the NY Times carried a front page story by Ian Urbina and Sean D. Hamill. The story could have been written by Charles Dickens.
Two Northeastern Pennsylvania Judges have worked a scheme to convict and sentence adolescents to private detention centers. The children, who had no former offenses, had been found guilty of small infractions of the law.
Since 2003, the Judges were paid $2.6 million for referring 5000 children to these detention centers. Last week the Judges pleaded guilty in the Federal District of Scranton to wire fraud and income tax fraud.
Would that these child abusers and scoundrels are sentenced to a Dickensian jail.
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andrew this is a test
ReplyDeleteYeah, pretty awful. Though it would matter a lot whether the judge's malfeasance was a) sentencing innocent kids to get the kickbacks or b) steering the guilty kids to favored centers. Both are bad, and even the latter would provide incentives for judges to judge badly. But "a" is far worse.
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