Jailing KiDs FoR Ca$H

More Judical Corruption in America

By Amy Goodman

As many as 5,000 children in Pennsylvania have been found guilty, and up to 2,000 of them jailed, by two corrupt judges who received kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities that benefited. The two judges pleaded guilty in a stunning case of greed and corruption that is still unfolding. Judges Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. and Michael T. Conahan received $2.6 million in kickbacks while imprisoning children who often had no access to a lawyer. The case offers an extraordinary glimpse into the shameful private prison industry that is flourishing in the United States.

Take the story of Jamie Quinn. When she was 14 years old, she was imprisoned for almost a year. Jamie, now 18, described the incident that led to her incarceration:

“I got into an argument with one of my friends. And all that happened was just a basic fight. She slapped me in the face, and I did the same thing back. There [were] no marks, no witnesses, nothing. It was just her word against my word.”

Jamie Quinn is just one of thousands that these two corrupt judges locked up. The Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center got involved when Hillary Transue was sent away for three months for posting a Web site parodying the assistant principal at her school. Hillary clearly marked the Web page as a joke. The assistant principal didn’t find it funny, apparently, and Hillary faced the notoriously harsh Judge Ciavarella.

They are expected to serve seven years in federal prison. Two separate class-action lawsuits have been filed on behalf of the imprisoned children.

Our children need education and opportunity, not incarceration. Let the kids of Luzerne County imprisoned for profit by corrupt judges teach us a lesson. As young Jamie Quinn said of her 11-month imprisonment, “It just makes me really question other authority figures and people that we’re supposed to look up to and trust.”

It's important to note that this is just "one" of the ways how our children are being exploited for corrupt authorities nefarious activities.

"And Ye Shall Know The Truth And The Truth Shall Set You Free"

WAKE UP AMERICA....ITS OUR COUNTRY!!!

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_Don

References:

[Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit]

http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=619134

http://www.dailynewscaster.com/2009/04/09/audio-judge-refuses-to-name-the-plantiff-threatens-defendant/

See AMeRiCaNS MuRdErInG ThEiR JuDgEs posting for more on this kind of judicial corruption.

http://www.banned-in-america.net/americans-murdering-their-judges.html

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/23/pennsylvania.corrupt.judges/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29142654/

http://www.truthout.org/021909J