{"id":1644,"date":"2011-08-13T18:58:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/judge-privatizes-justice-eventually-gets-caught.html"},"modified":"2011-08-13T18:58:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T22:58:09","slug":"judge-privatizes-justice-eventually-gets-caught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/judge-privatizes-justice-eventually-gets-caught.html","title":{"rendered":"Judge privatizes justice, eventually gets caught"},"content":{"rendered":"Reported even in the VDT, 12 August 2011, AP,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/todays-top-stories\/x1533027233\/Pa-judge-gets-28-years-in-kids-for-cash-case\">\nPa. judge gets 28 years in \u2018kids for cash\u2019 case<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/aug\/11\/kids-for-cash-judge-pennsylvania\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   width=\"230\" height=\"138\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2011\/8\/11\/1313079086758\/Judge-Mark-Ciavarella-Jr-007.jpg\"><\/a>\nA northeastern Pennsylvania judge was ordered Thursday to spend nearly\nthree decades in prison for his role in a massive bribery scandal\nthat prompted the state\u2019s high court to toss thousands of juvenile\nconvictions and left lasting scars on the children who appeared in his\ncourtroom and their hapless families.\n<p>\nFormer Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was sentenced to 28\nyears in federal prison for taking a $1 million bribe from the builder\nof a pair of juvenile detention centers in a case that became known as\n\u201ckids for cash.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\nNow that&#8217;s privatization of justice!\nLooks a lot like no justice at all.\nMakes you wonder how many other people are in prison who shouldn&#8217;t be.\n<p>\nWe don&#8217;t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.\nSpend that tax money on rehabilitation and education.\n<p>\n-jsq\n<p>\nPS: Had to go to the Guardian for the picture, though.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reported even in the VDT, 12 August 2011, AP, Pa. judge gets 28 years in \u2018kids for cash\u2019 case A northeastern Pennsylvania judge was ordered Thursday to spend nearly three decades in prison for his role in a massive bribery scandal that prompted the state\u2019s high court to toss thousands of juvenile convictions and left [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,1113,72,20,178],"tags":[3951,8817,8705,8701,8730,2696,3950,3949,3309,7,1297,2712,8749],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-incarceration","category-law","category-vlcia","tag-bribe","tag-cca","tag-education","tag-georgia","tag-incarceration","tag-injustice","tag-judge","tag-judge-mark-ciavarella","tag-kids-for-cash","tag-lowndes-county","tag-private-prison","tag-rehabilitation","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-qw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}