A story that shows the horrors of for profit prison systems paying judges to send them children. The worst case is a kid getting locked up for mocking her vice principal on myspace. Does anyone here think for profit prisons are a good thing? I don't think its possible to adequately punish these judges for the lives they destroyed.

https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/kids-for-cash-victims-speaking-out-during-civil-hearing-federal-court/523-2c06fd30-bc1d-4341-b87b-4bdae575a5b8

LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — The infamous Kids for Cash scandal will again play out in a courtroom in our area.

A federal judge in Wilkes-Barre is scheduled to hear testimony in a long-awaited civil hearing against the two judges at the center of the scandal.

Testimonies will start Monday morning.

Ten years ago, former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella was part of a high-profile corruption trial now infamously known as "Kids for Cash."

Ciavarella is still locked up and won't be in the courtroom when the civil part of the case moves forward this week.

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It's unclear whether his co-defendant and fellow former Judge Michael Conahan will be there - he was released from prison last year due to COVID-19 concerns.

Plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the two judges have been waiting since 2009 to have their testimony heard.

More than 300 people are scheduled to take the stand during the hearing that could last for weeks at the federal courthouse in Wilkes-Barre.

"Kids for Cash" got its name because of the judges' arrangement to send juvenile defendants to for-profit detention centers for kickbacks of cash.

Prosecutors said the pair made close to $3 million in the scheme.

Privatizing public services and utilities creates many more secondary gains for antisocial people who tend to gravitate towards power to exploit for personal gain.

When I say more incentive, the incentive exists already, but now you have an arms race of how much are you able to lower inmate quality of life vs profit margin for shareholders and you don't have to hide that you're skimming off the top of a public service; its the point now.

I am of the opinion that if you are forced to be somewhere and the state has armed guards keeping you locked in a cage, they're responsible for your safety and health. If you get assaulted by other inmates etc, you should be able to sue the prison itself for damages and dereliction of duty. This would insure good services. Now you just have societies bottom feeders working in these places at all levels. The COs are the apes of their local area who peaks in high school, the social workers and managers are people who are really settling, and the people in charge are sociopathic legal slave traders.

The guy who owns Hardee's has prisons, and I heard that in some of those prisons they just get breakfast sent over from the local Hardee's, and they probably bill and do a whole gaming thing to make a lot of money selling himself sandwiches. But if I go to prison, I want to go to prison where I can have Hardee's breakfast every day lol.

This post was edited by Skinned on Jan 13 2022 10:53am

the privatization of prisons or capitalistic incarceration is a return on investment the same way MRNA vaccines are for big pharma.

I'm against compartmentalization of the mind or selective attention span especially when it prevents congruent thinking that would otherwise expose or prevent
AI from leading the world into anarchy (divide and conquer).

This post was edited by lodd222 on Jan 13 2022 06:08pm