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Lock 'Em Up Jailing kids is a proud American tradition.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Lock 'Em Up Jailing kids is a proud American tradition. By THOMAS FRANK Wall Street Journal On-line April 1, 2009 At first glance, the news from Luzerne County, in northeastern Pennsylvania, is not good. In what is known locally as the "kids for cash" scandal, two judges have pleaded guilty to accepting $2.6 million in kickbacks from a for-profit juvenile correctional facility -- a privately owned jail for kids, essentially. And here is what the judges delivered, according to the charges of the U.S. Attorney overseeing the case: In 2003 one of them, Judge Michael Conahan, who had authority over such expenses, defunded the county-owned detention center, channeling kids sentenced to detention to the private jail -- along with the public's money...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 01, 2009 (boomark / email).