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Jail a Child, Get a Job: America Hates Kids

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Jail a Child, Get a Job: America Hates Kids Chris Norwood Huffington Post, March 30, 2009 Two judges in Western Pennsylvania, recently sentenced to seven years in prison for purposely inflating the sentences of juvenile offenders to benefit the income and profits of privately run "youth detention" centers, draw our attention to the over-riding economic impulse for the vast criminalization of American youth. The judges got bribes of $2.6 million. Thousands of teens were jailed for little or no reason. The young woman "offender" featured in the New York Times story about this debacle, for example, was 17, had two parents and the pleasant teen look often described as "perky." She had been sentenced to a juvenile center for 3 months for making fun of an assistant principal on MySpace...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 31, 2009 (boomark / email).