Judges plead guilty in scheme to jail youths for profit

I remember watching a TV movie in 1987 starring Andy Griffith about a judge who sentenced a teenage girls to an adult jail for something like breaking curfew and the kid was raped by one of the guards.
This almost sounds like that.

 

Seriously, it's for this very type of reason that the government needs to have some type of regulation on unchecked capitalism and why farming out government services to private companies is scary.

I mean a privately run youth detention center bribing judges to keep sending kids to their lockup?

When money is involved, this type of crap is going to happen if the slimeballs think they can get away with it.

 

One of the rare situations where unbelievable really is applicable.

 

That Andy Griffith would play a crooked judge?

 

Another reason to run like hell when people suggest we should just trust government and those charged with our best interests...

Wiretapping Americans without a warrant or oversight? What could possibly go wrong?

 

Wasn't there a bad movie starring one of the Beastie Boys, that kind of resembled this? I'm drawing a blank.

What happens to the girl headed for college that has a “juvenile detention” sentence on her application? What about kids that will always have that first strike against them? The implications go so deep. Just horrible.

 

Why would she put it on her application ?

 

I hope they get sentenced to the aggregate time they handed out to these kids times two, and have to do it all in GenPop.

 

Amen to that. The first time I ever read about privatizing prisons, it amazed me that someone could actually think this was a good idea.

Those SOBs deserve hard time, but probably won't get it.

 

Two assholes break the law and it's an indictment on capitalism? :

 

You mean like laws? I thought there were laws on the books against doing this kind of thing.

 

If the private prison didn't exist, there would have been nobody to pay the kickbacks, and this wouldn't have happened.

Can't make it any clearer than that.