Discussion for article #239335
This was one of the cruelest, vile, immoral schemes concocted by the private prison complex - a group for whom cruel, vile, and immoral are operating principles. Everyone involved should be doing life in a super max and their kid jails turned into schools paid for by their confiscated wealth.
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A few years from now when one of these assholes gets released, they’ll have turned into the biggest advocates for prison reform. These wealthy/power hungry people have zero ability to empathize and only change their minds on something after a first-hand traumatic experience jars them loose from their selfish egoism. But even then, they’ll make it about themselves.
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The settlements for these kids – now adults – will fund what, a semester of state college?
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I sure as hell hope many a tossed salad is on the menu for this no good peice of shit…with extra dressin…ifin ya know what i mean…
We should all be personally offended by the word “settlement” in any aspect of the justice system with regard for these felons. We allow suit and tie criminals to pay for their crimes with the currency they reaped from their activities.
So stupid as to defy logic.
Our laws need to be revised to allow acts such as these against children to be treated as violent crimes, including punishment by death. We know of at least one child suicide resulting from their crimes, so in my book this qualifies as a violent act against children. Settlement is absurd! Plea deals are not serving justice adequately.
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I’m surprised he’s getting prison time, but I bet the 18 months won’t be 18 months.
Does this “person” have more than $4.75 million? If so, that isn’t enough. Liquidate all his assets, claw back any he may have gifted to family, and give it all to the kids. Then send his sorry ass to prison to contemplate his impoverishment.
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It depends on what is considered “settled”. If you are charged with rectifying a problem, like the unwarranted detention of kids so a private jail can make money …you have two problems. One damage to the kids and two…you having to fix it. You’d like to think the settlement would fix the kid’s problem. But you’d me wring. This settlement fixes problem two…or government’s problem with its citizens problems. It makes the case go away. Clears the books. And leaves the kids fucked.
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I feel sorry for the kids that suffered at the hands of these fools. However, I still want them to stay off my damned lawn.
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This is what happens when corporate America sets up prisons as a profit center. Goals must be met, profits must be made regardless of the harm done to citizens. Prisons for profit are a sham and should be illegal.
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Disgusting.
I swear I saw this as an episode on Law and Order: SVU, or some such shit. Maybe one of those things “ripped straight from the headlines”.
I hope the Plaintiffs swamp the courts with claims for that money. Those kids deserve it. So much pain and suffering, not to mention wrongful convictions that will be with them the rest of their lives…and all because of a couple of money grubbing corrupt assholes playing Gawd with other people’s lives.
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Diogenes, the Greek philosopher, is still looking for an honest man in Pa. Diogenes has re-ordered more candles but they are on back-order. Diogenes has set up an 800 number and asking for contributions to his “candle fund.”
I grew up in that area. Corruption is rampant and has always been. If you wanted something done, you paid the politicians. I am so glad to be 3000 miles away from that place.
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Private Prisons need to be closed or taken over by the Government with government employees running it. We have seen too many stories from across this nation on private prisons and the same corruption taking place. Tax payers always end up paying more money and getting less after privatization of services once performed by state government because of corrupt politicians being bought off.
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Hell is too good for some people.
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A federal judge has approved a $4.75 million settlement between a businessman at the center of a Pennsylvania juvenile justice scandal and youths sent to his detention centers by a corrupt judge. …
The settlement agreement, approved Monday, covers at least 2,400 juveniles who appeared before Ciavarella between January 2003 and May 2008.
$4,750,000/2400 = $1979.17 avg. payout per jailed innocent kid. And that’s before the lawyers take their cut.
That is nowhere near enough money to compensate for undeserved adolescent jailing. It should have been a hundred to a thousand times that amount - and Luzerne County should be paying half of it.
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I grew up there too. And yeah, it’s easily one of the most corrupt counties in the nation - if not the most.
Every single one of the corrupt parties should be made to “pick up the soap” at least 2400 times each.
I’ve spent 30 years in the advertising industry. I’ve sat in many meetings helping clients plan and strategize for the growth of their brands.
I cannot imagine what get’s discussed in these sorts of strategy sessions at a for profit prison corporation. My mind boggles.
A growing prison industry is antithetical to the goals of a healthy society. Introducing a profit motive that actively mobilizes an industry to seek ways to grow, expand and generate more revenue from the penal system—to find ways to incarcerate more people at a lower cost per head—is about one of the most ethically bankrupt ideas I’ve ever seen put into action.
At the very least regulations should be put in place prohibiting these companies from engaging in any form of lobbying what so ever. There should be a fire wall between these prison interests and anyone involved in the making of or the enforcing of laws.
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