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Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan of the Court of Common Pleas in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, plead guilty in open court that they sentenced children to juvenile detention because they were paid off to do it by the PA Childcare and a sister company, Western PA Childcare corporation that ran the private facilities.
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The companies in question paid the two judges more than $2.6 million dollars to send children to detention. The companies receive a stipend from the government for each inmate they house. So as more children were sentenced to the detention center, PA Childcare and Western PA Childcare received more money from the government, prosecutors said.
According to the Juvenile Law Center, a Philadelphia nonprofit group, teenagers were sentenced to detention for simple misdemeanors.
“The two judges face up to seven years in prison under a plea agreement made with the state.”
They made millions of dollars by selling children (and driving them to suicide), and all they get is a handful of years? The US legal system is a joke and people who pretend we have the rule of law are the punchline.
Sometimes I have no response to this sort of thing other than WOW WHAT THE FUCK AMERICA
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I’m having a giveaway to promote an old friend’s website! He was a former teacher of mine, and he’s sponsoring it. His site is still under construction, but it’s a lifestyle, health and fitness guide for men over 50. The information’s valuable to any demographic, though, and his blog posts are hysterical. So be sure to show it to your fathers, especially if they’re out of shape!
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Moneyyyy
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plus she a crip…
I made this tumblr with the hopes of writing my feelings, thoughts, ideas, etc. And I have just been lagging it big time! In the future I want to log on to my tumblr and see how naive, lame, young, and inquisitive I was younger. Therefore I will try to post more from here on forward.
This bitch!hahaha
Hear that, people? When you get married, you are magically protected from STDs! Also, “uncontrolled sex” pretty much clarifies the anti-choicers true intentions.
Contraception causes cervical cancer? Contraception is “silent abortion”? Abortions cause nuclear war? I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much false equivalence in a single Facebook status.
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my friend’s mother really, really, really needs a cancer treatment, which if she cannot have she will die. she and her mother and their family in general are going through a really awful time, and are trying to raise the $8000 they need for this treatment, because insurance refuses…
