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Judge Convicted for Private-Prison Kickback Scheme

It doesn't get much worse than this: At worst, Hillary Transue thought she might get a stern lecture when she appeared before a judge for building a spoof MySpace page mocking the assistant principal at her high school in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. She was a stellar student who had never been in trouble, and the page stated clearly at the bottom that it was just a joke. Instead, the judge sentenced her to three months at a juvenile detention center on a charge of harassment. She was handcuffed and taken away as her stunned parents stood by. ?I felt like I had been thrown into some surreal sort of nightmare,? said Hillary, 17, who was sentenced in 2007. ?All I wanted to know was how this could be fair and why the judge would do such a thing.? The answers became a bit clearer on Thursday as the judge, Mark A...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).