This is the same state in which this atrocity happened, with essentially no fanfare upon discovery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal https://

This is the same state in which this atrocity happened, with essentially no fanfare upon discovery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal Based on my reading of the situation, including who got charged with and convicted for what, two judges shut down a state juvenile facility in favor of a couple of new private ones, extorted payments from the people doing that (obviously the balance of bribery/extortion/collusion can be very hard to figure out), and then proceeded to make sure the facilities were stuffed full of "offenders": "For example, Ciavarella sentenced children to extended stays in juvenile detention for offenses as minimal as mocking a principal on Myspace, trespassing in a vacant building, and shoplifting DVDs from Wal-mart." I looked at the Myspace incident in detail, it was not criminal in the least. NOTHING in this realm would surprise me coming out of that state, which I long ago crossed off as a place to step foot on.