Judges who sent children to for-profit jails for kickbacks ordered to pay more than $200 million in

[IcyPeas]

Judges who sent children to for-profit jails for kickbacks ordered to pay more than $200 million in damages
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Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups. Ciavarella, who presided over juvenile court, pushed a zero-tolerance policy that guaranteed large numbers of kids would be sent to PA Child Care and its sister facility, Western PA Child Care.

Ciavarella ordered children as young as 8 to detention, many of them first-time offenders convicted of petty theft and other minor crimes. The judge often ordered youths he had found delinquent to be immediately shackled, handcuffed and taken away without giving them a chance to say goodbye to their families.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judges-sent-children-profit-jails-kickbacks-ordered-pay-200-million-da-rcna43538

[live love laugh]

1. They should be in jail not just fined.

[femmedem]

2. Absolutely.

What kind of monster would traumatize children and damage families like that?

[soldierant]

5. A MAGA monster?

[BOSSHOG]

6. A Pro life Christian

[questionseverything]

3. These two need prison time, years and years of it

[IcyPeas]

4. More within linked article.....

Ciavarella is serving a 28-year prison sentence. Conahan, who was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison, was released to home confinement in 2020 — with six years left on his sentence — because of the coronavirus pandemic.

It’s not clear whether the plaintiffs — now well into adulthood — will see any of the eye-popping damages award. Luzerne County, a onetime defendant, was dismissed from the case years ago.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Child Trafficking

From the Bench.

[DFW]

8. Never let a one of them out until their 80th birthday

Such cold cruelty and greed deserves no less than the loss of their adult lives, just as they were willing to deprive so many children of their youth.

[GoodRaisin]

9. The corruption in this country makes me want to vomit

when I see news like this. These two pigs should have never seen the light of day again. Home confinement for this?