Has anyone here heard of the Kids for Cash scandal?In case you don't know what it is, two judges from Pennsylvania were convicted of accepting bribes from builders of private for-profit juvenile detention centers in exchange for sentencing kids to the

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Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 03:52:58 No.610799

Has anyone here heard of the Kids for Cash scandal?

In case you don't know what it is, two judges from Pennsylvania were convicted of accepting bribes from builders of private for-profit juvenile detention centers in exchange for sentencing kids to the prison for minor offenses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

So what is your take on the whole for profit prison ordeal? What can we do to stop it?

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 03:55:39 No.610802

Yep. This shit must be going on a lot more than we know. On top of that, we have thousands of people waiting in jail to go to trial, and they've spent YEARS in jail for shit they haven't even been convicted of yet.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 04:00:38 No.610806

>>610802

It really grinds my gears. Especially when they're doing this with KIDS for godsakes. How morally bankrupt can you get?

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 04:25:07 No.610855

The prison-industrial complex is the most terrifying consequence of capitalism.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 04:52:36 No.610896

>shit like this happens and people still believe in the crapitalism

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 05:04:56 No.610913

>>610896

You mean CRONY crapitalism :^)

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 05:06:33 No.610918

>>610855

>>610896

yeah, but what about gulags?

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 05:15:55 No.610931

>>610918

That's basically what prison labor is in the US.

sage 03/22/16 (Tue) 05:16:25 No.610933

>>610931

ignore shitpost flag

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 05:18:18 No.610938

>>610931

prison labor in US is nowhere near the scale of gulags. Maybe a hundred years ago though.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 05:21:02 No.610942

>>610938

I was being hyperbolic. It's still awful though.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 05:45:19 No.610973

Who here has read Discipline and Punish? I found it fascinating, when it wasn't boring to read. I recommend it to anyone interested in the prison system/discipline from a Marxist perspective

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 06:20:45 No.611004

>>610973

That's by Foucault, no? I thought he wasn't a Marxist.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 07:11:53 No.611050

>>610799

Did they make a Special Victims Unit episode based on this case? This sounds really familiar.

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 07:19:09 No.611054

>>611050

>sounds really familiar

probably because it's a textbook example of greed that one would expect to find in a Dickens book, except this is real

Anonymous 03/22/16 (Tue) 11:22:33 No.611164