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COMMENTS: Judges Pocket For-Profit Juvie Hall Kickbacks
The most outrageous story of the day came from Scranton Pa yet only CBS found it worthwhile to assign a reporter to the scandal. So hats off to Seth Doane who brought us the guilty pleas of Judge Mark Ciavarella and Judge Michael Conahan. In a case of Dickensian proportions, the juvenile court jurists admitted pocketing $2.6m in kickbacks from privately-owned detention facilities. These for-profit juvie halls paid the judges by the month for each teenager's sentence. The judges were incarcerating thousands of kids for offenses as trivial as "stealing change from cars pr writing prank notes," Doane told us.
A small quibble--Doane did not even identify the firms that run the juvie halls. Follow-up please.
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