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Pennsylvania judges accused of jailing kids for cash

Judges allegedly took $2.6 million in payoffs to put juveniles in lockups.

Honestly, the headlines made me furious. Kids have a hard enough time going through puberty and doing stupid things, but this Pennsylvania judge was locking them up left and right and COLLECTING MONEY from two privately owned juvenile detention centers.

>"Among the hundreds of offenders were teenagers who were locked up for months for stealing loose change from cars, writing a prank note and possessing drug paraphernalia. Many had never been in trouble before. Some were imprisoned even after probation officers recommended against it. Many appeared without lawyers, despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1967 ruling that children have a constitutional right to counsel. "

There is no jail sentence long enough for these <judges.>

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