Take a private prison for 4,000 juvenile light crimes!The two corruption judges of the United States will pay $ 200 million

[Global Times Special reporter Li Zhun Global Times special reporter Liu Haoran] The famous judicial corruption scandal in American history- "Children's Gold Change Case" has made the latest progress on the 17th local time. Two former judges who were imprisoned by corruption were fined more than $ 200 million in court to make up for the losses of the victims of hundreds of claims.

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According to the Associated Press on the 17th, in order to retrieve the deduction from a private prison, the two used their powers to judge the young and children's perpetrators in about 5 years, and the victims reached about 4,000. The plaintiff lawyer Lvik said that no matter whether the money was paid, this was a huge victory.

The judge was fined $ 206 million

The Associated Press reported that the Saklandon District Court of Pennsylvania, the two main criminals of the "child's money for money", the former judge Mark Chawarala and Michael Konhan Han , To compensate nearly 300 injustice children.

The judge Conner said that the "child's money exchange case" caused "unprecedented human harm" to the victim. Two prisoners violated the vow and broke the public trust. question. According to the compensation plan, the compensation obtained by each plaintiff is about the total time of time in accordance with the standard of $ 1,000 per day.

In 2011, two black -minded judges were established for many corruption and were sentenced to 28 and 17 and a half years in prison. In addition to receiving bribes, the two also involved many illegal plots such as money laundering, fraud, and extortion. While investigating the criminal liability of the two, the victim group also tried to add civil compensation through collective lawsuits in 2009, but the lawsuit was not held until 2021.

In the previous trial, some victims stated that "my life was destroyed once, there was no future", and some people said, "The feeling of the year is that everyone is lined up one by one, waiting for them to be sold one by one." Many people suffer from With the traumatic reaction of life, many victims committed suicide.

Go through the road to jail

According to the case review, Charvarella and Konhan used their powers and influence to close a public juvenile punishment center operated by the county government to fully support private institutions to build two detention centers that have been detained by juvenile criminals locally. In order to ensure the "check -in rate", Judge Black Heart launched the so -called "zero tolerance" policy, and the children who had no cases or had only a mild product issue had been severely sentenced, and they were rejuvenated from the two prisons to redeem up to $ 2.8 million. Essence

The Associated Press said that from 2003 to 2008, about 4,000 "juvenile prisoners" in Lu Zenen County were sent to two private prisons by Judge Black Heart. Through the road, escape from school, and even smoke in schools, it may be convicted and sentenced. The youngest "juvenile" is only 8 years old.

Not only that, Judge Black Heart also severely damaged the legitimate judicial procedure during the disconnection. After conviction, he put handcuffs for the "prisoner" and did not leave them away from the gap of lawyers and family members. This series of cases of injustice and falsehood have caused extremely negative social impacts. It has been regarded as negative textbooks by public opinion for a long time, and the director tracks the case and made into a documentary "Children for Money".

Private prison breeds corruption

Before the 1980s, there was no concept of private prison in the United States. However, as the Ridan government initiated a large -scale "anti -drug war", the prisoners in the United States were overcrowded, so the government began to "outsourcing" for the operation of some prison facilities to private companies. From 1990 to 2005, the number of private prisons in the United States increased by 15 times.

From the perspective of many media, the parallel system of public and private prisons in the United States is the root cause of the "children's money for money" scandals. The prison administrative system with profit -making is inevitable to breed corruption. In order to ensure the maximum profit, such institutions often rack their brains to reduce operating costs, such as reducing employees, lowering wages, and reducing business training. The consequences of this must be the safety of sacrificing prison. A 2016 report of the US Department of Justice showed that the violent incidents of private prisons and the number of prohibited products were higher than that of public prison institutions, and it did not necessarily help the government to save costs. Operators of this type of institution make a lot of money: According to industry reports, the average profit of 3 large companies operating private prison in the United States in the United States was as high as US $ 374 million in 2015.

Since such institutions often accept government funding according to the head, the higher the "occupancy rate", the more funding. A research in the United States in 2020 shows that the number of private prisons is significantly positively correlated with the number of private prisons and their sentences. Galnito, a scholar at the School of Economics Sciences of Washington State University, said that the United States "not all criminal acts can get the same judgment." Cases of cases have a large operating space in non -criminal judgment. Resource tolerance is possible to be lobbying by the private sector.

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