Judge who accepted private-prison bribes to send black kids to jail sentenced to 28 years

Cory Doctorow boingboing.net August 6, 2013 In 2009, I wrote about Judge Mark A. Ciavarella, one of two Pennsylvania judges who was paid bribes by a private prison contractor to send black children to prison and keep the for-profit prisons full. Ciavarella, who once sent an African-American child to jail for three months for posting … Continue reading Judge who accepted private-prison bribes to send black kids to jail sentenced to 28 years