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Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html?_r=1&em

Do you know of any similar practices?

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html?_r=1&em

Do you know of any similar practices?
No, I don't.

But I think you have just made a splendid argument for 'good, old-fashioned, inefficient' jury trials.

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Originally posted by spruce112358
No, I don't.

But I think you have just made a splendid argument for 'good, old-fashioned, inefficient' jury trials.
Or perhaps a splendid argument against privately run detention centers.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html?_r=1&em

Do you know of any similar practices?
Yes. It happens all over the U.S. especially in the South. This is standard procedure and a common practice. The only way around it is to pay serious cash for a lawyer who is in cahoots with the Judge and pays him off. Other than that you are screwed!

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Originally posted by utherpendragon
Yes. It happens all over the U.S. especially in the South. This is standard procedure and a common practice. The only way around it is to pay serious cash for a lawyer who is in cahoots with the Judge and pays him off. Other than that you are screwed!
Convict labor hey! Well it worked for Australia why not the US
South?

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Originally posted by kmax87
Convict labor hey! Well it worked for Australia why not the US
South?
The chain gang is alive and well here!

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Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Or perhaps a splendid argument against privately run detention centers.
Because there is no such thing as corruption in government?

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Originally posted by utherpendragon
Yes. It happens all over the U.S. especially in the South. This is standard procedure and a common practice. The only way around it is to pay serious cash for a lawyer who is in cahoots with the Judge and pays him off. Other than that you are screwed!
Isn't it slavery?

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Originally posted by shavixmir
Isn't it slavery?
for once you and I agree on something😲

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Prisons are farms? That's a good way of looking at it. We are reaping what we sow.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html?_r=1&em

Do you know of any similar practices?
It's the Prison-Industrial Complex. Prisons have become big business.

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we could just drop them all off on an arctic island with parkas and bean plants.

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Originally posted by spruce112358
Because there is no such thing as corruption in government?
Sure there is. But if you don't pay whoever is running the detention center for locking up more youths or for whatever they are doing when inside, then where is the incentive to be corrupt?

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Originally posted by zeeblebot
we could just drop them all off on an arctic island with parkas and bean plants.
A Brief History of Australia

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Prisons are farms? That's a good way of looking at it. We are reaping what we sow.
That's very witty AThousandYoung.
I shall recommend your post for you.