Jailing Children For Money...The Sick Society We Have Become
February 12, 2009 | Pulaski Township, Pennsylvania | Vetting explained
U.S. judges admit to jailing children for money Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:36pm EST By Jon Hurdle PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - 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. 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. Continued at: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE51B7B320090212 Read more about these criminals at: Audit questions juvenile center expenses http://www.standardspeaker.com/articles/2009/02/12/news/hz_standspeak.20090212.a.pg1.hz12_cvjudgesaudit_s1.2299187_top3.txt
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