Corrupt judge

[Isaac]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-stirs-outrage-scranton-commuting-kids-cash-judges-sentence

"Ciavarella ordered children as young as 8 years old to detention, many of them first-time offenders deemed delinquent for petty theft, jaywalking, truancy, smoking on school grounds and other minor infractions. The judge often ordered youths he had found delinquent to be immediately shackled, handcuffed and taken away without giving them a chance to put up a defense or even say goodbye to their families."

Wow, just wow ... if that's not one of the saddest things I've read all week, other than Gaza suffering and Assad's hidden prisons, I'm not sure what is

 

[moke123]

Private prisons are about as corrupt as you can get. I remember that case well. There were 2 judges involved. Like a hotel, they don't make money unless they're full and it's not like people are beating down the door to stay there. Private prison stocks have risen steadily over the last few months.

 

[AccessBlaster]

So private prisons are the problem, not Joe commuting scumbag judges? Interesting take

Joe is on a roll, definitely more shady stuff coming our way. I suspect James Biden will the next criminal to get a free pass.

 

[Pat Hartman]

Private prisons are about as corrupt as you can get. I remember that case well.

Private prisons, reform schools, and their ilk sounded good on paper. They were one of those liberal ideas that wasn't all that hard to sell given the existing options. At the time, it certainly never occurred to me that judges would be taking money for funneling people into these institutions. I still thought that judges were a cut above the rest of us. I was wrong and Biden deserves to rot in hell for pardoning those judges.

We know the government can't run anything efficiently and so these types of facilities make being incarcerated worse than it needs to be (not that we should be making it pleasant), and woefully more expensive than necessary. So, they don't rehabilitate well and for many people they turn them into hardened criminals in addition to costing a fortune per person per year. The management of the facilities is also easy to corrupt and the low level jobs attract people who are bullies and who take out their misery on those in their charge.

Intellectually, it is easy enough to see the problems and think you have solutions. However, all solutions are implemented by people and they have failed the system miserably.

Private prisons seem to have made problems worse rather than better so it should be back to the drawing board to try to fix the government run system. But, fixing the government run system REQUIRES good oversight which Congress is incapable of performing and the ability to fire people who don't perform. Doesn't seem possible to fire incompetent government employees these days and Biden is trying to implement procedures to make it even harder to obstruct Trump's agenda.

Speaking of "Biden", we probably need to start with a rule change that allows government employees to be prosecuted for the crimes they commit like prosecutors bringing charges that wouldn't fly except if the target is Trump or a supporter and the same prosecutors failing to charge Biden and others for the crimes they charged Trump with.

So many people to fire, where to start

 

[Steve R.]

The fact that this judge was pardoned, speaks to the corruption and lack of ethical/moral standards of the Biden administration. In fact, you can extend this lack of ethical/moral standards to all members of the Democratic party. They have used lawfare and the power of the state in an attempt to "bury" Trump and to illegally bring in a massive number of immigrants in violation of US immigration laws. Those who are Democrats have no moral/ethical standards.

 

[Isaac]

Private prisons are about as corrupt as you can get. I remember that case well. There were 2 judges involved. Like a hotel, they don't make money unless they're full and it's not like people are beating down the door to stay there. Private prison stocks have risen steadily over the last few months.

That's another topic of 5-10 where I lean liberal, if that generality is even a fair one ... Somehow or another, prisons need to be highly regulated and privatization doesn't seem to do the trick. Incarcerating someone is an extremely serious act to embark upon by one human being to another. We should go to great lengths to eliminate all possibilities of abuses. I actually had a great idea a few years ago, I think all prisons should revolve around 12 step programming. Not just include a tiny bit of it, but literally revolve around it. Then I think the concept of Rehabilitation is a more realistic one, and prison terms might even be shorter.

Prisons, sentencing, etc., I lean more toward regulating. I don't trust judges very much. There are bad people on all sides, the conservative judges who just throw the book at everyone and the liberal ones who basically try to let everyone off (unless they're a white man of course, in which case we can't remember what equity means now)

 

[Isaac]

I have to add something else to this , though .... it's worth remembering the fact that sentence commutations ... despite all the juicy dramatic clickbait headlines/soundbites...are NOT someone "getting off scot-free", or "getting away with" their crime. It's just a commutation. The person has already served time, in some cases a lot of time. So it just depends, I'd say it's certainly very case-by-case.
Just read the story of his latest commutation, a 71 yr old embezzler. She's been in prison since 2012, 12 years.

I'm not saying good or bad either way on this one, but I'm just saying, in order to guarantee a purely rational reaction, you have to ask yourself this question :: However mad I am that her sentence was commuted, would I have been exactly just as mad if I read a story about her having been sentenced to 12 years? Would I have said to myself "Oh goodness, why 12 instead of 20!?" ??
Odds are, probably not. In fact you might have said to yourself "that sounds about right".

Now the pardons, that's easier to gauge whether one's reaction is reasonable.

 

[Steve R.]

Biden clemency for convicted fraudsters met with outrage: 'Slap in the face'

A sweeping list of commutations and pardons from President Biden provided relief to several individuals who defrauded taxpayers out of millions of dollars.

www.foxnews.com

Among those covered in what the Biden White House is calling the largest single-day act of clemency by a U.S. president was Rita Crundwell, a former comptroller in Dixon, Illinois. Crundwell was convicted and sentenced to nearly 20 years behind bars for using her position to steal nearly $54 million from the small town best known for the boyhood home of Ronald Reagan.

Also on the list was former New York law partner Paul M. Daugerdas, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in a multibillion-dollar tax fraud scheme described by prosecutors as one of the largest criminal tax fraud cases in U.S. history, as well as Toyosi Alatishe, who abused his position as a caretaker for patients with severe mental deficiencies and physical disabilities by using their personal information to file fraudulent tax returns.

 

[Isaac]

The embezzler has served 12 years and I'm not sure about the lawyer. I'm not sure what a fair term is, honestly.

 

[Cotswold]

Unbelievably this is what governments do.
Until the 1980s Britain was still sending orphans and other poor, or difficult young children to Australia.

I have not the slightest how they justified such an action. It was a terrible secret, hidden until many years later.
It is only in the last month, or so that the police in Manchester have agreed not to forcibly strip search young girls. Maybe other police forces still do that? I do not know. It does appear at times that all governments pay people to be evil.