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PA: juvenile injustice, judicial avarice

The juvenile reformers and public defenders have been talking about this, and now it's made the New York Times:Judges Plead Guilty in Payoffs for Jailing Youths(O)n Thursday... (J)udge, Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., and a colleague, Michael T. Conahan, appeared in federal court in Scranton, Pa., to plead guilty to wire fraud and income tax fraud for taking more than $2.6 million in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers... While prosecutors say that Judge Conahan, 56, secured contracts for the two centers to house juvenile offenders, Judge Ciavarella, 58, was the one who carried out the sentencing to keep the centers filled.?In my entire career, I?ve never heard of anything remotely approaching this,? said Senior Judge Arthur E...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).