US judges took millions in bribes to send kids to prison

[Eldorado]

Two former state judges who took bribes to send hundreds of children to prison have been ordered to pay more than $200million for the scheme.

In the so-called kids-for-cash scandal, Pennsylvania state judges Mark Ciavarella, 72, and Michael Conahan, 70, shuttered a county-run juvenile detention center in exchange for $2.8million in illegal payments from the co-owner and builder of two for-profit jails.

US District Judge Christopher Conner has awarded almost 300 plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the judges, with $106million in compensatory damages and $100million in punitive damages.

The victims are ‘the tragic human casualties of a scandal of epic proportions’, Conner wrote in the judgment explanation on Tuesday.

https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/18/pennsylvania-us-judges-took-millions-in-bribes-to-send-kids-to-prison-17202790/?

 

Ciavarella ordered children as young as 8 to detention, many of them first-time offenders deemed delinquent for petty theft, jaywalking, truancy, smoking on school grounds and other minor infractions. The judge often ordered youths he had found delinquent to be immediately shackled, handcuffed and taken away without giving them a chance to put up a defense or even say goodbye to their families.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/17/ex-judges-ordered-pay-200-million-kids-cash-scheme-victims/10350694002/

[+OverSword]

They should be locked up and the key melted down.

[Eldorado]

32 minutes ago, OverSword said:

They should be locked up and the key melted down.

Do you reckon that will happen?

[HSlim]

They should be hung in full view of the prisoners

[Hawken]

There's more corruption than meets the eye. If a politician is a multi-millionaire on their salary. You know they're getting dirty money.

[HSlim]

14 minutes ago, Eldorado said:

Do you reckon that will happen?

Ciavarella is serving a 28 year prison sentence for this scandal and is 72 years old.  That's a life sentence at his age and I'm sure he's getting a lot of unwanted attention unless they've (likely) got him under special protection.  Conahan released in 2020 to home confinement due to the COVID pandemic and only had 6 years left on his sentence at the time. 

It's not enough for what they did to those kids and their futures. 

Edited August 18, 2022 by HSlim

[Buzz_Light_Year]

They're both Democrats.........Shocked I tell ya, just shocked.

[+and-then]

1 hour ago, Eldorado said:

Do you reckon that will happen?

No.  This sounds like a civil suit for monetary damages.  What those two guys did was evil.  There's no telling what kind of emotional damage was done to those kids.  

[HSlim]

15 hours ago, Buzz_Light_Year said:

They're both Democrats.........Shocked I tell ya, just shocked.

Ffs dude do you have to make everything about democrats and republicans?

[spartan max2]

****en gross. How soulless of a person do you got to be to do something like that for years

[Buzz_Light_Year]

1 hour ago, HSlim said:

Ffs dude do you have to make everything about democrats and republicans?

You mean like the politicians and especially the media? And the lion's share of political posters on UM?

[HSlim]

1 minute ago, Buzz_Light_Year said:

You mean like the politicians and especially the media? And the lion's share of political posters on UM?

That's a bad argument for being one dimensional but hey, you do you

[Buzz_Light_Year]

3 minutes ago, HSlim said:

That's a bad argument for being one dimensional but hey, you do you

Yeah stating the obvious is a bad argument.

[rashore]

Folks, let's not make the topic a bickerment about political parties. Keep the discussion to the OP topic. 

[Raptor Witness]

On 8/18/2022 at 3:30 PM, HSlim said:

It's not enough for what they did to those kids and their futures.

Many bar associations currently harbor criminals without any check on them. All you have to do is look at the Murdaugh case in South Carolina to get a sense of the phenomenon. The state bar sheltered multiple criminal attorneys in South Carolina, exactly as they did in PA.

The number of bad apples we can find, is likely the tip of an iceberg. 

If we allow the corruption of our legal system to continue, unchecked, the dead will soon be piled up, like cordwood.

Edited August 20, 2022 by Raptor Witness

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

On 8/19/2022 at 6:15 AM, Buzz_Light_Year said:

They're both Democrats.........Shocked I tell ya, just shocked.

Being a greedy, amoral **** has no politics.

[Raptor Witness]

7 hours ago, Sir Wearer of Hats said:

Being a greedy, amoral **** has no politics.

Exactly ….. this is a no-brainer.

Extreme greed extends across the entire bar association. Political affiliation is not a factor in this type of corruption. We see it in both major parties.

Those making and administering the laws, must be subject to greater penalties when they violate the law, or the system will eventually fail.