Private Prisons Corrupt Judges

Submitted by SeaQ on February 11, 2009 - 5:55pm

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"In one of the most shocking cases of courtroom graft on record, two Pennsylvania judges have been charged with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers."

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090211/ap_on_re_us/courthouse_kickbacks

"Prosecutors say Luzerne County Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan took $2.6 million in payoffs to put juvenile offenders in lockups run by PA Child Care LLC and a sister company, Western PA Child Care LLC. The judges were charged on Jan. 26 and removed from the bench by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court shortly afterward.
No company officials have been charged...."

Let's keep the names of these companies in mind...

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This may be Bloomberg's one accomplishment

Submitted by Spike Jabber on July 13, 2009 - 6:33pm.

I don't think it was Bloomberg;s intention, but expanding the Brooklyn House of Detention at it's current location makes it accessible to people all over the borough. Many subway lines stop nearby, and loved ones can visit on their way home from work in Manhattan. I say make BHoD as big as necessary. That's not to say that I'm in favor of the Giulianiesque practice of arresting people up for every little thing, but if they are going to lock people up, this is the place for it.

Pork-a-leiujah!

Submitted by SeaQ on May 20, 2009 - 10:02pm.

I think that says it all....

Brooklyn Prison Article

Submitted by leftylib on February 18, 2009 - 8:38am.

The city comptroller has delayed Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to renovate and reopen the Brooklyn House of Detention by saying that the costs for an initial portion of the project had almost doubled without a detailed explanation.

www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/6/32_6_mm_house_of_d.html

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Submitted by Anonymous on October 10, 2009 - 2:46am.

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Prisons: The Last Growth Industry

Submitted by michael on February 13, 2009 - 3:10am.

Across the country, we've got cops in schools treating kids like criminals...the kids sit in the schools until they're old enough to go to prison. In NY State the Govenor cuts funding on drug rehabilation programs that cut recidivism rates by 2/3rds...to direct funding to prisons that are now mostly empty!

We jail SO MANY people in this country! It's racist, classist, and violent. Something is very wrong. Prison is too profitable.

1% of our population

Submitted by inscrutabledestiny on May 16, 2009 - 9:15pm.

This is something that has always bothered me. How can we allow for-profit private prisons. Any business wants to run for profit, but profiting from crime seems to be a conflict of interest. Business will always discourage anything that can cut into their profit margin. So it stands to reason that any laws or programs that would keep people out of jail would be campaigned against by these private prisons. Prisons are big business making big money. The ugly fact is that big money influences government. Making prisons a privately owned industry is not in the interest of the people.

1% of the population of United States is locked up.

That is over 2 million people.

The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners.

China, which is four times more populous than the United States, is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison.

So... are we really a free county?