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Updated Update: Judge Ciavarella Found Guilty

by Anne Laurie|  February 19, 20119:25 pm| 47 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Shitty Cops, Assholes, Decline and Fall, Outrage

Since Kay is busy organizing in Ohio (Ohio residents, check that post!), she graciously gave me permission to post another update on the Pennsylvania judge caught using hapless local teenagers as a profit center: SCRANTON, Pa. – A former juvenile court judge was convicted Friday of racketeering in a case that accused him of sending …

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A just resolution, I think

by Kay|  August 11, 20111:11 pm| 107 Comments

This post is in: Activist Judges!, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell

Thanks to commenter Ben Cisco for this: SCRANTON, Pa. — A longtime northeastern Pennsylvania judge was ordered to spend nearly three decades in prison for his role in a massive juvenile justice bribery scandal that prompted the state’s high court to toss thousands of convictions. Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was sentenced Thursday …

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Sometimes We Call Them Kickbacks, Other Times We Call It the Invisible Hand

by John Cole|  February 23, 20111:41 pm| 73 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Glibertarianism, Assholes, Teabagger Stupidity

At Reason, Jacob Sullum explains the story of the corrupt Judge in PA who received payments for in turn sending business to corrections facilities: Mark Ciavarella, the corrupt Pennsylvania judge who is the subject of my column today, prided himself on taking a tough, no-nonsense approach to juvenile offenders, refusing to accept excuses or consider …

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A Follow Up

by Kay|  February 17, 20111:28 pm| 35 Comments

This post is in: Free Markets Solve Everything, General Stupidity

Both Dougj and John wrote about this: In 2007, a frantic call from an alarmed parent prompted Juvenile Law Center to investigate irregularities in the Luzerne County Pennsylvania juvenile court. Juvenile Law Center discovered that hundreds of children were appearing without attorneys before juvenile court judge Mark Ciavarella, and were then quickly adjudicated delinquent (found …

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Private jails

by DougJ|  March 26, 20094:47 pm| 63 Comments

This post is in: Assholes, Outrage

No one could have predicted that privatizing the criminal justice system could lead to something like this (via Atrios): In one of the most egregious cases of judicial corruption ever seen, federal prosecutors charged Ciavarella and another Luzerne County judge, Michael Conahan, with taking $2.6 million in payoffs to put juvenile offenders in private lockups. …

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