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PA: Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit February 12, 2009 By IAN URBINA and SEAN D. HAMILL NY Times 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...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).