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Common
08-05-2013, 12:43 AM
Judge Mark A. Ciavarella, 63, serves as an example of why the private prison industry can do more harm than good. Ciavarella worked alongside owners of private juvenile facilities to ensure that the prison remained occupied. The more prisoners equated to more profits for the owners of the prison.
As a result, Ciavarella would sentence offenders with small offenses to months and, at times, years behind bars. He once sentenced a teen to three months in jail for creating a MySpace page that mocked her school’s assistant principal. Ciavarella also sentenced another teen to 90 days in jail after a simple schoolyard fight.
But after a federal investigation, it was discovered that Ciavarella and his colleague, Judge Michael Conahan, received more than $2.6 million from privately run youth centers owned by PA Child Care. In 2011, Ciavarella was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to 28 years in prison. He was also forced to pay $1 million in restitution.
http://rollingout.com/criminal-behavior/judge-must-serve-28-years-after-making-2-million-for-sending-children-to-jail/
GrassrootsConservative
08-05-2013, 12:58 AM
They should give him a taste of his own unfair, mountain-from-a-molehill medicine and sentence him to death. :laugh:
A joke, obviously.
patrickt
08-05-2013, 06:13 AM
This isn't a problem of a private business causing more harm than good. It's an example of a corrupt and crooked public figure making money. I read other articles about this case and one mentioned that corruption in this part of Pennsylvania is staggering and mentioned that teachers have to pay off someone to get a teaching position. I wonder if that's an example of something other than a culture of corruption.
On the plus side, I believe that with RICO convictions you get no time off your sentence for anything--except maybe with bribes--and the good judge will have to serve the full 28 years or die in prison.
Mainecoons
08-05-2013, 06:18 AM
The judge serves as an example of all the public corruption which the government-loving media so loves to shove under the carpet. That is all. First line of the source is BS and leftist editorializing by another lover of government.
The OP is in love with failed government. So he posts crap like this.
That is all.
Common
08-05-2013, 07:17 AM
This op shows how the right and their hate for govt and their constant drum beat of how wonderful the private sector is. This shows the utter corruption in the quest for profit and how it permeates govt with corrupt private sector profiteers who bribe govt officials to feed their greed.
It also shows that privitization is not the answer and creates more problems than it fixs.
Mainecoons
08-05-2013, 07:24 AM
:rofl:
Rant time.
jillian
08-05-2013, 07:29 AM
Judge Mark A. Ciavarella, 63, serves as an example of why the private prison industry can do more harm than good. Ciavarella worked alongside owners of private juvenile facilities to ensure that the prison remained occupied. The more prisoners equated to more profits for the owners of the prison.
As a result, Ciavarella would sentence offenders with small offenses to months and, at times, years behind bars. He once sentenced a teen to three months in jail for creating a MySpace page that mocked her school’s assistant principal. Ciavarella also sentenced another teen to 90 days in jail after a simple schoolyard fight.
But after a federal investigation, it was discovered that Ciavarella and his colleague, Judge Michael Conahan, received more than $2.6 million from privately run youth centers owned by PA Child Care. In 2011, Ciavarella was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to 28 years in prison. He was also forced to pay $1 million in restitution.
http://rollingout.com/criminal-behavior/judge-must-serve-28-years-after-making-2-million-for-sending-children-to-jail/
Certain things shouldn't be privatized... like prisons, national security contractors, soldiers...
it doesn't work out well.
patrickt
08-05-2013, 07:51 AM
Yes, a scandal about two corrupt judges and a corrupt prison. But, keep in mind, that every single horror story you've read about prisons were....government prisons. That's right, Jillian. The prisons in Arkansas where dozens of "escaped" convicts were buried in the levee" Government prison. The prison in California where the guards organized and bet on "gladiator" matches? Government prison with a strong union workforce. How about Attica? Government prison. In Raiford the guards would handcuff a naked prisoner with his feet up on the bars and his buttocks sitting in a pile of salt and leave him there till he had open sores. Government prison.
And then we have case after case of people who were known to be innocent being prosecuted and sometimes convicted of crimes.
Some things are too important to be left up to the government, Jillian.
GrassrootsConservative
08-05-2013, 07:53 AM
This op shows how the right and their hate for govt and their constant drum beat of how wonderful the private sector is.
Judges don't work for the private sector, they work for the GOVERNMENT. Which justifies the right's hatred for big-government nanny-states like the one you on the left want us to be.
zelmo1234
08-05-2013, 07:55 AM
This op shows how the right and their hate for govt and their constant drum beat of how wonderful the private sector is. This shows the utter corruption in the quest for profit and how it permeates govt with corrupt private sector profiteers who bribe govt officials to feed their greed.
It also shows that privitization is not the answer and creates more problems than it fixs.
Thank goodness that this Judge was caught, but the corruption was not just in the private sector?
The Judge is going to jail and in this day and age that should tell you something!
And last it is easy for me to find a lot of great and honest business people, But I would be hard pressed to give you 10 honest politicians and even harder to find 10 public employee's that do not take advantage of the system
Mainecoons
08-05-2013, 07:56 AM
IN YOUR OPINION JILLIAN, certain things shouldn't be privatized.
You continue to be confused between your opinions and facts. If you'd care to support you opinions for a change. . . .
I did a little reading on this topic. There have been successes and failures with private prisons just like public ones.
jillian
08-05-2013, 08:43 AM
IN YOUR OPINION JILLIAN, certain things shouldn't be privatized.
You continue to be confused between your opinions and facts. If you'd care to support you opinions for a change. . . .
I did a little reading on this topic. There have been successes and failures with private prisons just like public ones.
see... if you STFU and just answer and post your last sentence, then maybe you wouldn't sound like such a loon.
there have been some successes with privatization.
but far more failures. and things that need to operate for the public good shouldn't be privatized. is that my opinion? yes, based upon the information i've read.
it's certainly no less legitimate than your 'OPINIION' that things SHOULD be privatized, despite things like blackwater and snowden and this particular story...
no judge should make money putting kids in jail. and that's couldn't happen if it was privatized.
some things need to be operated only for the public good.
patrickt
08-05-2013, 08:54 AM
Jillian: "some things need to be operated only for the public good."
And that's exactly why they can't be left up to the government.
Peter1469
08-05-2013, 09:22 AM
Certain things shouldn't be privatized... like prisons, national security contractors, soldiers...
it doesn't work out well.
In general I agree.
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