I am so happy this son of a bitch is going away for a long time:
Disgraced Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for conspiring with private prisons to sentence juvenile offenders to maximum sentences for bribes and kickbacks which totaled millions of dollars. He was also ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution.
In the private prison industry the more time an inmate spends in a facility, the more of a profit is reaped from the state. Ciavearella was a figurehead in a conspiracy in the state of Pennsylvania which saw thousands of young men and women unjustly punished and penalized in the name of corporate profit.
According to allgov.com Ciavearella’s cases from 2003 – 2008 were reviewed by a special investigative panel and later by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and it was found that upwards of 5,000 young men and women were denied their constitutional rights, and therefore all of their convictions were dismissed and were summarily released.
May the stench of his greed cause him to rot like a dead fish.
It’s stunning the small infractions that caused these children to become pawns for a corporation.
Here’s another bitch who should be gone. Air Force General Craig Franklin.
May he rot in hell. But he didn’t dream up and carry out this abominable outrage on his own. It’s a direct result of privatizing social functions that are better carried out directly by government. In this best of all Galtian worlds, if people make profits from people being in prisons, we will get more people in prisons. Big surprise.
I’m glad the fucker’s in the slammer, but I wonder how long he’ll actually serve as compared to his many many victims. Unfortunately, I can’t believe this is an ‘isolated problem.’ With the Prison-Industrial Complex a growth business sector everywhere, what better way than profit sharing to cement those private-public partnerships.
After seeing my parting shot of snark, any takers on the number of days until some teabag douche, probably from TX, will be quoting it as “how the system is supposed to work?”
What makes me sick is that the corporation has had no one prosecuted for bribery. If they did this with one prison, they did it with every single stinking for-profit prison, that they run. Paying out that kind of cash bribes had to have gone by the corporation’s board of directors, the president of the corporation, the head of finance, the head of accounting, the personnel in accounting and the outside auditors.
This is not the only filthy judge. Checking the judges that sentenced children to prison in the for-profit prisons would turn up literally dozens of corrupt judges and prosecutors.
Simple, just check which judges made the longest sentences and which prosecutors prosecuted. They will stand out like sore thumbs.