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Title: Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash
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AP
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Published: Feb 13, 2009
Author: MICHAEL RUBINKAM and MARYCLAIRE DALE
Post Date: 2009-02-13 12:34:08 by Horse
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Comments: 8
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - For years, the juvenile court system in Wilkes-Barre operated like a conveyor belt: Youngsters were brought before judges without a lawyer, given hearings that lasted only a minute or two, and then sent off to juvenile prison for months for minor offenses. The explanation, prosecutors say, was corruption on the bench. In one of the most shocking cases of courtroom graft on record, two Pennsylvania judges have been charged with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers. "I've never encountered, and I don't think that we will in our lifetimes, a case where literally thousands of kids' lives were just tossed aside in order for a couple of judges to make some money," said Marsha Levick, an attorney with the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center, which is representing hundreds of youths sentenced in Wilkes-Barre. Prosecutors say Luzerne County Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan took $2.6 million in payoffs to put juvenile offenders in lockups run by PA Child Care LLC and a sister company, Western PA Child Care LLC. The judges were charged on Jan. 26 and removed from the bench by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court shortly afterward. No company officials have been charged, but the investigation is still going
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#1. To: Horse, REDPANTHER (#0)
LegalIndustrialComplex BUMP
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.~~William Wallace ALAS, BABYLON
If true, I would execute them. The Chinese understand this.
Nope.. scum like this, do not deserve a quick death..
You are dreaming. The Supreme Court has ruled that judges have absolute immunity. They cannot be punished; maybe removed from office, but they cannot be punished.
So you believe a judge can be a serial killer, a serial rapist, a serial child molester....and nothing will happen to them?
The absolute immunity applies in court. Not to their personal life. And, even in court, if their action are bad enough to offend the other judges such as exposing themselves to the jury, they can be punished or at least removed.
Nakkked in a glass cage on the steps of the justice building is the way to is the way to go. Execution destroys the evidence.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" So if a judge shoots his wife from the bench, nothing will happen? Give me a break. You're being ridiculous, and you know it. Judger don't have absolute immunity on the bench, no matter what the Supreme Court has ruled. I've seen them go to prison for things they've done on the bench.
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
#2. To: Horse (#0)
No place is better than Turtle Island.
#3. To: Turtle (#2)
If true, I would execute them.
#4. To: Turtle (#2)
If true, I would execute them.
#5. To: DWornock (#4)
The Supreme Court has ruled that judges have absolute immunity
No place is better than Turtle Island.
#6. To: Turtle (#5)
So you believe a judge can be a serial killer, a serial rapist, a serial child molester....and nothing will happen to them?
#7. To: Turtle (#2)
If true, I would execute them.
#8. To: DWornock (#6)
(Edited)
The absolute immunity applies in court.
No place is better than Turtle Island.
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