[lit-ideas] Re: Hitchens Arguably on John Brown
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:14:42 -0700
Andy wrote
Regarding the Texas prisons, one has to wonder if they were going to
be run by private companies. Then each prisoner becomes a profit
center, so the more prisoners the better. I know they were doing that
with juvenile crime, actually making money on sending kids away,
kickbacks and all (that was in the Northeast I think). I saw later
that at least that one judge was prosecuted.
I believe you're thinking of a case in Pennsylvania, that came to light
several years ago. A county juvenile court judge, assisted by a judge in
the Court of Common Pleas, sentenced juveniles who appeared before him
to time in a nearby for-profit juvenile home, for even the most legally
minuscule behaviour, in return for kickbacks from the owner of the home
(whom he'd help set up in business).
The juvenile court judge was sentenced to 28 years in prison, and 4,000
of those whom he'd had incarcerated were released.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/us/28judges.html?pagewanted=all
A painful case.
Robert Paul
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