Scandal - In the Judicial Branch

Nothing like a good scandal. This one involves a couple of judges and some private companies operating juvenile detention centers. Don't you just love it when Republicans rant about how much better private businesses run things than government does? I don't think there's a whole lot of difference, myself.

From Carolina Naturally...

Two senior Pennsylvania judges have been sentenced to seven years in prison for taking bribes from juvenile detention centers -- in exchange for the bribes, the judges turned in guilty verdicts for the teens who appeared before them and sent them to 'juvie', thus enriching the operators of the kiddie gulag. For this, the judges received $2.6 million in kickbacks.

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