Two judges pleaded guilty on Thursday to accepting more than $2.6 million from a private youth detention center in Pennsylvania in return for giving hundreds of youths and teenagers long sentences.Hold IT, HOLD IT Right there....
Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan of the Court of Common Pleas in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, entered plea agreements in federal court in Scranton admitting that they took payoffs from PA Childcare and a sister company, Western PA Childcare, between 2003 and 2006.
"Your statement that I have disgraced my judgeship is true," Ciavarella wrote in a letter to the court. "My actions have destroyed everything I worked to accomplish and I have only myself to blame."
[ cf U.S. judges admit to jailing children for money ]
IF it is in some way criminal to detain children for profit, then remind me again about buying under age boys for transport to GitMo????
I mean... if it were not gooder for the Judges to take the "gratuity" from the detainers.... Then is it not sorta Illegal for the Detainers to offer Gratuities to get detainees???
And if that is a bad... uh....
Oh dear, remind me again why this is NOT merely Persecuting the Free Trade in Free Markets for gaining control of under age players... You know, For NATIONAL SECURITY PURPOSES...
( h/t to There's all kinds of vile in this world )