Criminal Injustice
Feb. 13th, 2009 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joshwritingI've been boggled by this one for a few days now.
Two judges in Pennsylvania have been railroading juveniles into a pair of detention facilities, apparently in return for kickbacks from the facilities - to the tune of ~$2,600,000 between them.
Hundred and possibly thousands of kids have been convicted and sentenced, often for incredibly trivial issues - and usually without either having lawyers or being informed that they were entitled to them.
They pleaded guilty. One of them expressed remorse. The other allegedly closed the public facility and arranged for the private ones to get contracts with the state, contracts deemed excessive - and yet, the process was not examined, let alone the results, for years.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29142654/
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/02/2-pa-judges-adm.html&cid=1303722996&usg=AFQjCNHerNw1_KSBOjI6LeQJtfD_Ii-yPA
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h88VgykKcn87UozOYaETJS6yufvgD96AP8FG0
I just don't get it.
Two judges in Pennsylvania have been railroading juveniles into a pair of detention facilities, apparently in return for kickbacks from the facilities - to the tune of ~$2,600,000 between them.
Hundred and possibly thousands of kids have been convicted and sentenced, often for incredibly trivial issues - and usually without either having lawyers or being informed that they were entitled to them.
They pleaded guilty. One of them expressed remorse. The other allegedly closed the public facility and arranged for the private ones to get contracts with the state, contracts deemed excessive - and yet, the process was not examined, let alone the results, for years.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29142654/
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/02/2-pa-judges-adm.html&cid=1303722996&usg=AFQjCNHerNw1_KSBOjI6LeQJtfD_Ii-yPA
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h88VgykKcn87UozOYaETJS6yufvgD96AP8FG0
I just don't get it.
