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Title: Judges jailed for taking bribes from private juvie prisons to send kids to jail
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URL Source: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/02/judges-jailed-for-ta.html
Published: Feb 3, 2009
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Post Date: 2009-02-03 08:27:34 by PSUSA
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Posted by Cory Doctorow, February 2, 2009 12:15 AM | permalink Two senior Pennsylvania judges have been sentenced to seven years in prison for taking bribes from juvenile detention centers -- in exchange for the bribes, the judges turned in guilty verdicts for the teens who appeared before them and sent them to juvie, thus enriching the operators of the kiddy gulag. For this, the judges received $2.6 million in kickbacks. First, the judges helped the detention centers land a county contract worth $58 million. Then their alleged scheme was to guarantee the operators a steady income by detaining juveniles, often on petty stuff. Many of the kids were railroaded, according to allegations lodged with the state Supreme Court last year by the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center, an advocacy group. In asking the court to intervene in April, the law center cited hundreds of examples where teens accused of minor mischief were pressured to waive their right to lawyers, and then shipped to a detention center. One teen was given a 90-day sentence for having parodied a school administrator online. Such unwarranted detentions left "both children and parents feeling bewildered, violated and traumatized," center lawyers said. "Very few people would stand up" to the Luzerne judges, according to the law center's executive director, Robert G. Schwartz.
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#1. To: PSUSA, noone222, HOUNDDAWG (#0)
These judges should get the death penalty! This the tipping point right here folks..
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files Most of the time these critters are not Judges, but county employees. The parents are generally ignorant of the real law or just don't care about their own children, which circumvents their position as parent . I've had numerous opportunities to set things right with some of these imposters that often claim authority that has never been granted them, especially with respect to minors. Juvenile and Family Courts are courts of "limited" jurisdiction, which means that they are generally given authority by agreement, acquiesence, silence or stipulation by the person(s) that actually have authority. (Parents spouses etc). Verbiage / legalese / sophistry is utilized to confuse the unsophisticated party that causes them to relinquish their power in favor of the court, its fake judge, or other agent such as CPS or Family Court Services. Getting interested and involved in some of this stuff ultimately convinced me that our entire government is useless or more often than not, DANGEROUS.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. Henry David Thoreau - 1849
Anything short of death is justice NOT served ! MEffingS-O-Bs
4um Traitor This the tipping point right here folks.. I agree !!!
4um Traitor Most of the time these critters are not Judges, but county employees. The parents are generally ignorant of the real law or just don't care about their own children, which circumvents their position as parent . I've had numerous opportunities to set things right with some of these imposters that often claim authority that has never been granted them, especially with respect to minors. Juvenile and Family Courts are courts of "limited" jurisdiction, which means that they are generally given authority by agreement, acquiesence, silence or stipulation by the person(s) that actually have authority. (Parents spouses etc). Verbiage / legalese / sophistry is utilized to confuse the unsophisticated party that causes them to relinquish their power in favor of the court, its fake judge, or other agent such as CPS or Family Court Services. Getting interested and involved in some of this stuff ultimately convinced me that our entire government is useless or more often than not, DANGEROUS. bump
4um Traitor
#2. To: Lady X, IndieTX (#1)
#3. To: Lady X (#1)
These judges should get the death penalty!
#4. To: PSUSA (#0)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#5. To: Lady X (#1)
These judges should get the death penalty!
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#6. To: noone222 (#3)
These judges should get the death penalty!
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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