Some morning indigestion for you via Twitter:
It seems a pair of judges in Pennsylvania have been sending kids to juvie in return for kickbacks from the detention center operators.
The setting is Pennsylvania coal country, but it’s a story right out of Dickens’ grim 19th-century landscape: Two of Luzerne County’s most senior judges on Monday were accused of sending children to jail in return for kickbacks.The judges, Luzerne County President Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., 58, and his predecessor, Senior Judge Michael T. Conahan, 56, will serve seven years in jail under a plea agreement.
They’re alleged to have pocketed $2.6 million in payments from juvenile detention center operators.
Everyone involved with this should be executed, and have their heads placed on pikes outside the courthouse. You know, as a fucking REMINDER.
And if I have to tell you what they’re being reminded of, expect a visit from me and my Cheese Grater.
You wouldn’t believe the money available to non-profit agencies that want to provide probation services to the courts. They fight amongst themselves for the right to bid. Why? There’s money in it. For everyone, apparently.
Joan of Argghh!
January 31st, 2009