@adisonverlice @rabbit Yeah...
The #KidsForCash scandal is one of those extreme cases...
@jcrabapple I don’t know there were a whole bunch of judges who were selling children to for-profit prisons even when the kids didn’t commit crimes or when the crimes didn’t rise to the level of incarceration.
Those dudes were absolutely fearless. And they were rewarded handsomely. The one who was still on house arrest is totally free now because President Biden commuted his sentence.
“It Broke Him”: Mother Who Lost Son in “Kids for Cash” Scheme Slams Biden’s Clemency for Corrupt Judge
> My son did nothing more than anything that most of us as kids did, you know, experimenting and living his life and making mistakes, that we usually all get to just learn and evolve and grow from. He did nothing more than be at an underaged drinking party with tons of other kids, but he was caught.
> But he — it just never ended. It just snowballed. It changed him. It broke him. It stole his youth, his childhood. He would never, ever recover. And it just became too much, and he shot himself in the heart.
President Joe Biden’s decision to grant clemency to a corrupt former judge has sparked widespread outrage, including from members of his own party. Biden announced nearly 1,500 commutations and pardons last week in what the White House described as the largest single-day act of clemency from a president, but among those whose sentences were reduced is former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan — one of two judges in the notorious “kids for cash” scandal. In 2011, Conahan was sentenced to 17.5 years for accepting nearly $3 million in kickbacks for sending 2,300 children, some as young as 8 years old, to for-profit prisons on false charges. His co-conspirator, former Judge Mark Ciavarella, remains in prison. We speak with filmmaker Robert May, director of the Kids for Cash documentary, and Sandy Fonzo, mother of Edward Kenzakoski, who was incarcerated as a teenager as part of the kickback scheme and later died by suicide. “It’s just reopening wounds that have never healed,” Fonzo says of the commutation. She describes her son as “strong” and “proud” before his time in detention, but says “he came out broken” and never fully recovered. “It stole his youth, his childhood.”
I found it . The #documentary mentioned on #DemocracyNow
WARNING: Some may be triggered by this doku. Please take care☮️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LSHSqxtf4U
#Privateownedhildprisons #FuckBiden #CorruptJudges #childabuse #LuzerneCounty #Pennsylvannia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1jEcLgdKio
'It Broke Him': Mother Who Lost Son in #KidsForCash Slams #ButcherBiden's 'Clemency' for #CorruptJudge
#ForProfitDetentionFacilities #FUCKBiden!
Fucking waste man!
Biden granted clemency to the #KidsForCash judge. The White House didn’t consider the case specifics.
President Joe Biden this week granted clemency to the former Pennsylvania judge, Michael Conahan, as part of a mass commutation covering nearly 1,500 people who had been released on home confinement during Covid.
Conahan’s inclusion sparked harsh blowback, with Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro criticizing Biden for getting it “absolutely wrong.”
Conahan was convicted in 2011 of funneling juveniles to for-profit detention centers in exchange for more than $2M in kickbacks. He was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges.
At the time, the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania called the scandal “the worst in Pennsylvania’s history,” forcing the state to vacate thousands of juvenile convictions.
POLITICO / https://archive.md/VifI6 #crooks #liars #Democrats #uspol
Sickening news, that this Judge who was paid to send kids to jail had his sentence commuted.
> A judge who helped orchestrate one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S.history — a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickback ... sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden this week.
A judge who helped orchestrate a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks was among the 1,500 people whose sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden this week. Biden’s decision to commute the 17-year prison sentence of Michael Conahan angered many in northeastern Pennsylvania, from the governor to the families whose children were victimized by the disgraced former judge. What became known as the “kids for cash” scandal is considered one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history. It led the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to throw out some 4,000 juvenile convictions. Conahan was sentenced in 2011 and had already served much of it.
the man Biden granted clemency ruined scores of children’s lives by sentencing them to juvenile prison, for which he received millions of dollars in kickbacks.
this is the kind of person the Democrats go to bat for. not people like you or me.
#JoeBiden #Democrats #KidsForCash
see also: https://archive.md/vwiq9
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