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You greatly overestimate the care one judge can muster about the prison system. They are complicit at best, and we have already seen a couple judges convicted f
by spacemanmatt 12y ago
You greatly overestimate the care one judge can muster about the prison system. They are complicit at best, and we have already seen a couple judges convicted for sending innocent 'customers' to private prisons in which they held stock on from which they received kickbacks.
- tptacek 12y agoThere was the famous PA "kids-for-cash" scheme. What's the other case?
- ewoodrich 12y agoThe PA case also resulted in a conviction on 12 counts, with the corrupt judge ultimately being sentenced to 28 years in federal prison.
- thaumaturgy 12y agoThere were two judges convicted in that case.
- tptacek 12y agoA-ha. Thank you.
- ufmace 12y agoNot that those things haven't happened, but this sounds overly cynical to me. Yeah, the bad part is that the system tends to be dirty, and sometimes does very dirty things to people who don't have the money or influence to fight it. On the other hand, if you have money for lawyers, or any influence with the media or politicians, then dirty tricks like that tend not to fly. You'd have to ask a lawyer, probably one who practices federal criminal law, how such a thing would actually work, but I'm going to guess that if your problem is that the BOP keeps transferring you endlessly, then a lawyer could make a case for filing some kind of suit in almost any jurisdiction, and so you can take your pick of judges and courts.
- coldtea 12y ago>Not that those things haven't happened, but this sounds overly cynical to me. Overly cynical is how the world works.