28 years: Judge gets off easy (Altoona Mirror on Mark Ciavarella case)

[alp227]

Mark Ciavarella Jr. has it wrong. It's not the term "kids for cash" that made him the personification of evil.

That was "accomplished" by the abuse of the justice system and of juveniles' rights that he exhibited as a Luzerne County judge.

Ciavarella was sentenced last week to 28 years in jail for racketeering for taking a $1 million bribe from the builder of two juvenile detention centers and ordering children to serve sentences there.

At his sentencing, he denied any wrongdoing, but he likely is the only one - other than perhaps fellow defendant former judge Michael Conahan - who believes that.

The evidence says otherwise, and considering the emotional scars he inflicted from the bench, the 28-year sentence seems lenient.

full: http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/552681/28-years--Judge-gets-off-easy.html?nav=728

[ZombieHorde]

1. I usually think punishments are too severe, but I agree this guy should go away for a long time.

Maybe even forever.

[rasputin1952]

2. This judge was corrupt, he should never have sat on the bench...

and 28 years is fine...he should also pay restitution to those youths that were damaged by his corruption. I have also read where he defended himself...besides being corrupt, he's also proven himself to be a fool.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. What about the owners of the private juvenile prisons?

Anyone go to jail for bribing the judge? Are the prisons still allowed to operate? And what about police who arrested children as young as 10 years of age in the first place????

The imprisonment of the judge should have been just the first of a series of correcting this monstrosity of "justice".