Beyond that, I hope every one of these kids sent to jail by this bad judge sues the bastard so that he ends up penniless as well.
From the AP by way of MSNBC.com:
Ex-judge gets 17 years in 'kids for cash' scandal
'I am sorry you were victimized,' he tells children he sent to detention centers
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM 
SCRANTON, Pa. — A former county president judge who took part in a massive kickback scheme involving for-profit juvenile detention centers was sentenced Friday to 17 1/2 years in prison. Standing in a federal courtroom in Scranton, former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan, 59, apologized to the incarcerated youths, the legal community and the public. "The system is not corrupt," he said. "I was corrupt."
To the children sent to a pair of facilities from which he received kickbacks, Conahan offered a direct apology.
"My actions undermined your faith in the system and contributed to the difficulty in your lives," he said. "I am sorry you were victimized."
Conahan pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy last year. He and former Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. were charged with taking bribes from the builder of a pair of juvenile detention centers and extorting cash from the facilities' co-owner.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned about 4,000 juvenile convictions in the wake of the so-called "kids for cash" scandal.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Houser acknowledged that, unlike Ciavarella, Conahan had cooperated with prosecutors. But he requested a substantial sentence anyway.
"Mr. Conahan abused his power to enriched himself and his friend, Mark Ciavarella," Houser said. "The justice system in Pennsylvania was shaken to its very foundation."
U.S. District Judge Edwin M. Kosik recommended Conahan be placed in a federal prison camp in Florida so he can be close to his family.
It appears that the judge is the only one going to jail over this. There are a number of other people (most of them in the "incarceration for fun, profit and political control" business who, afaia, have not even been investigated.
ReplyDeleteREAL justice would require that the asshole do the aggregate of the time that young people he wrongly sent to prison spent there--or as much as he can before his worthless corpse rots.
I wonder if he had to turn in his gunz when he was arrested. Oh, yes, I'm just thinking a law'n'ordure type like him would be well armed.