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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>A case in point was the Pennsylvania "kids for cash" scandal. <br><br> Luzerne County Senior Judge Michael Conahan shut down the state juvenile detention center in 2002 and
used County funds pay for a multimillion-dollar
lease for the private facilities. <br><br>Judge Mark Ciavarella and Conahan corruptly and fraudulently
"created the potential for an increased number of juvenile offenders to
be sent to juvenile detention facilities," federal court documents
alleged. Children would be placed in private detention centers, under
contract with the court, to increase the head count. In exchange, the
two judges secretly received more than $2.6 million in kickbacks,
prosecutors said.<br><br>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/23/pennsylvania.corrupt.judges/<br><br><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:47:14 -0800<br>From: Rob@MeansForDemocracy.org<br>To: sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<br>Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Proposed increase in San Jose Police budget from 30 to 40% of general revenue<br><br>
Spencer,<br>
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I would submit that consolidation of ownership of prisons - and the
attendant concentration of power and profit - was the driving force.
"Follow the money" is still sage advice. The mainstream (lamestream)
commercial media is simply the handmaiden, delivering the
appropriate soothing message (i.e. party line) when necessary, but
mostly just infotainment and fear mongering. If you follow the
money, you will find that all these huge corporations have
interlocking Boards of Directors. Which leads to corporate
group-think - which dooms our planet. <br>
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<div class="ecxmoz-cite-prefix">On 03/02/2014 10:23 PM,
<a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sosfbay-discuss-request@cagreens.org">sosfbay-discuss-request@cagreens.org</a> wrote:<br>
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<pre> The incarceration rate in the US today is 5 times what it was 40
years ago. No change in crime correlates with that. I know of only one
change during these past 40 years that can explain that: Consolidation
of ownership of the mainstream commercial media with a massive reduction
in investigative journalism.
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