Friday, August 12, 2011

Mark Ciavarella, Former Pa. Juvenile Court Judge, Convicted in Alleged 'Kids for Cash' Case - ABC News

Mark Ciavarella, Former Pa. Juvenile Court Judge, Convicted in Alleged 'Kids for Cash' Case - ABC News

Posted by Richard T. Rapscallion Jr.

This is exactly why privitization of prisons is a bad bad idea.
Judge Faces 10 Years in Alleged 'Kids for Cash' Scheme
abcnews.go.com
A former juvenile court judge in Pennsylvania could face more than ten years in prison after being convicted in what prosecutors call a "kids for cash" scheme. Prosecutors say former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella used children as pawns, locking them up unjustly in a plot to get rich. Ciavarel...