sure but did you know private prisons actively want to keep jails full so they can maximize profits and that's led to judges just convicting whoever as young as 8 to them so they can get bribes? They pitch to stockholders "these prisons don't rehabilitate at all and they'll definitely be sent right back" (high recidivism)
to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner awarded $106 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages to nearly 300 people in a long-running civil suit against the judges, writing the plaintiffs are "the tragic human casualties of a scandal of epic proportions."
In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups. Ciavarella, who presided over juvenile court, pushed a zero-tolerance policy that guaranteed large numbers of kids would be sent to PA Child Care and its sister facility, Western PA Child Care.
Ciavarella ordered children as young as 8 to detention, many of them first-time offenders deemed delinquent for petty theft, jaywalking, truancy, smoking on school grounds and other minor infractions. The judge often ordered youths he had found delinquent to be immediately shackled, handcuffed and taken away without giving them a chance to put up a defense or even say goodbye to their families.
"Ciavarella and Conahan abandoned their oath and breached the public trust," Conner wrote Tuesday in his explanation of the judgment. "Their cruel and despicable actions victimized a vulnerable population of young people, many of whom were suffering from emotional issues and mental health concerns."
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out some 4,000 juvenile convictions involving more than 2,300 kids after the scheme was uncovered.
It's unlikely the now-adult victims will see even a fraction of the eye-popping damages award, but a lawyer for the plaintiffs said it's a recognition of the enormity of the disgraced judges' crimes.
"It's a huge victory," Marsha Levick, co-founder and chief counsel of the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center and a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said Wednesday. "To have an order from a federal court that recognizes the gravity of what the judges did to these children in the midst of some of the most critical years of their childhood and development matters enormously, whether or not the money gets paid."
Another plaintiffs' attorney, Sol Weiss, said he would begin a probe of the judges' assets, but did not think they had any money to pay a judgment.
Ciavarella, 72, is serving a 28-year prison sentence in Kentucky. His projected release date is 2035.
Conahan, 70, was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison but was released to home confinement in 2020 — with six years left on his sentence — because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Conner ruled after hearing often-emotional testimony last year from 282 people who appeared in Luzerne County juvenile court between 2003 and 2008 — 79 of whom were under 13 when Ciavarella sent them to juvenile detention — and 32 parents.
"They recounted his harsh and arbitrary nature, his disdain for due process, his extraordinary abruptness, and his cavalier and boorish behavior in the courtroom," Conner wrote.
One unnamed child victim testified that Ciavarella had "ruined my life" and "just didn't let me get to my future," according to Conner's ruling.
Said another plaintiff: "I feel I was just sold out for no reason. Like everybody just stood in line to be sold."
Another victim described how he shook uncontrollably during a routine traffic stop — a consequence of the traumatizing impact of his childhood detention — and had to show his mental health records in court to "explain why my behavior was so erratic."
Several of the childhood victims who were part of the lawsuit when it began in 2009 have since died from overdoses or suicide, Conner said.
To calculate compensatory damages, the judge decided each plaintiff was entitled to a base rate of $1,000 for each day of wrongful detention, and adjusted that amount based on the circumstances of each case. Substantial punitive damages were warranted because the disgraced judges inflicted "unspeakable physical and emotional trauma" on children and adolescents, Conner wrote.
The damages award only covers plaintiffs who chose to participate in process.
Other major figures in the case settled years ago, including the builder and the owner of the private lockups and their companies, in payouts totaling about $25 million.
I don't know what you've been spoonfed to believe about the subject but he did 100% rape her.
Carroll testified that she struggled to get Trump off her as he shoved his mouth on hers, yanked her tights down, and penetrated her with his hand and then his penis. She described him curving his finger inside her, saying it was "extremely painful" and "a horrible feeling."
Under New York criminal law, an assault constitutes "rape" only if it involves vaginal penetration by a penis. That was the definition the jury was instructed to use in the civil case.
But the jurors' conclusion that Trump sexually abused Carroll "necessarily implies" that they did, in fact, believe he penetrated her with his fingers, Kaplan said.
Here was his reasoning:
Kaplan noted his instruction to the jury that, for Trump to have sexually abused Carroll, Trump needed to have touched her sexual or intimate parts. The only allegations from Carroll that could possibly fit that bill were forcible kissing, pulling down her tights, and vaginal penetration, he said.
“The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’ ” Kaplan wrote.
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Kaplan said New York’s legal definition of “rape” is “far narrower” than the word is understood in “common modern parlance.”
The former requires forcible, unconsented-to penetration with one’s penis. But he said that the conduct the jury effectively found Trump liable for — forced digital penetration — meets a more common definition of rape. He cited definitions offered by the American Psychological Association and the Justice Department, which in 2012 expanded its definition of rape to include penetration “with any body part or object.”
Kaplan also flatly rejected the Trump team’s suggestion that the conduct Trump was found liable for might have been as limited as groping of the breasts.
The reason? Trump was not accused of that, so the only alleged offense that would have qualified as “sexual abuse” was forced digital penetration. Beyond that, Trump was accused of putting his mouth on Carroll’s mouth and pulling down her tights, which Kaplan noted were not treated as alleged sexual abuse at trial.
“The jury’s finding of sexual abuse therefore necessarily implies that it found that Mr. Trump forcibly penetrated her vagina,” Kaplan wrote, calling it the “only remaining conclusion.”
Kaplan also noted that the verdict form did not ask the jury to decide exactly what conduct Trump had committed, and that neither prosecutors nor Trump’s lawyers had requested it to do so.
“Mr. Trump’s attempt to minimize the sexual abuse finding as perhaps resting on nothing more than groping of Ms. Carroll’s breasts through her clothing is frivolous,” Kaplan wrote.
He added that the jury clearly found that Trump had “ ‘raped’ her in the sense of that term broader than the New York Penal Law definition.”
The motion was a part of Trump’s efforts to appeal the verdict against him. That’s an effort that will apparently continue as he faces a separate defamation lawsuit from Carroll, dealing with claims Trump made about her allegations while he was still president.
But for now, Trump’s effort to push back has led to a rather remarkable clarification that severely undercuts his main talking point.
They yearn for the urn
just like everyone else
But without a support system. That's the point.
It all eventually ends though, right? And they don't have a family still, so they have no margin of error or support system.. even if they train you on how to get a job and stuff they're still only a few weeks out from being homeless because jobs don't pay enough for the majority of people to be saving anything at all and living cheque to cheque.
Not officially in Canada, but the supreme Court wants them to be punished
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/28/nx-s1-4992010/supreme-court-homeless-punish-sleeping-encampments
Plus, if he gets to stack the court 6/3 you can bet they're doing nationwide bans on it as well as abortion (which undeniably leads to deaths for people who miscarry, forces raped people to carry the result of the assault.
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/icc-arrest-warrant-netanyahu-21nov24/
Why the absolute fuck would we not put someone who's actively committing genocide in prison after the international criminal court put out a warrant?
Change the course of the world is definitely some way to say it. Another way would be that he amplified misinformation and boosted nazi voices, while getting a felon rapist elected. Did you hear that they had starlink "count" the votes in swing states? And that for some reason people voted for AOC and dems for the Senate but somehow votes for Trump to be president? Something that literally never happens, all while they were bragging that diddler had enough votes and that you could change them with "a line of code"
Not platformed Nazis? Have a kid that can speak to me?
Back when actual money from Russia was funding the imposter accounts to spam the hot page and bury the relevant stuff with downvotes. You'd have to sort by new and go past a bunch of garbage.
and the stock and crypto markets are benefiting normal people how exactly?
tariffs will be a disaster. he's got you thinking china's going to foot the bill? That's the same fiction as mexico paying for the wall he didn't build.
It's funny you say that because the sock puppet accounts that censored tuchodi and my posts behind spam and ignorance stopped right as the election started winding down and voting started. They must have been reassigned to burn ballot boxes and punch 70 year olds.
you don't want to debate about abortion because you know you're in the wrong about everything. It's a fact that abortion bans make more women die.
[From 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases in Texas rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period, according to an analysis by the Gender Equity Policy Institute. The nonprofit research group scoured publicly available reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and shared the analysis exclusively with NBC News.
“There’s only one explanation for this staggering difference in maternal mortality,” said Nancy L. Cohen, president of the GEPI. “All the research points to Texas’ abortion ban as the primary driver of this alarming increase.”
“Texas, I fear, is a harbinger of what’s to come in other states,” she said.
Among Hispanic women, the rate of women dying while pregnant, during childbirth or soon after increased from 14.5 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2019 to 18.9 in 2022. Rates among white women nearly doubled — from 20 per 100,000 to 39.1. And Black women, who historically have higher chances of dying while pregnant, during childbirth or soon after, saw their rates go from 31.6 to 43.6 per 100,000 live births.While maternal mortality spiked overall during the pandemic, women dying while pregnant or during childbirth rose consistently in Texas following the state’s ban on abortion, according to the Gender Equity Policy Institute.
“If you deny women abortions, more women are going to be pregnant, and more women are going to be forced to carry a pregnancy to term,” Cohen said.
Beyond the immediate dangers of pregnancy and childbirth, there is growing evidence that women living in states with strict abortion laws, such as Texas, are far more likely to go without prenatal care and much less likely to find an appointment with an OB-GYN.](https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/texas-abortion-ban-deaths-pregnant-women-sb8-analysis-rcna171631) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/abortion-bans-healthcare-maternal-mortality https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-abortion-bans-deaths-agonies.html
https://sph.tulane.edu/study-finds-higher-maternal-mortality-rates-states-more-abortion-restrictions
The researchers found that states with the higher score of abortion policy composite index had a 7% increase in total maternal mortality compared with states with lower abortion policy composite index. Among individual abortion policies, states with a licensed physician requirement had a 51% higher total maternal mortality and a 35% higher maternal mortality (i.e. a death during pregnancy or within 42 days of being pregnant), and restrictions on state Medicaid funding for abortion was associated with a 29% higher total maternal mortality.
“It is critically important that state-level policies related to women’s access to comprehensive reproductive health care services, including abortion, are evidence-based and guided by the primary goal of improving women’s health and reducing maternal mortality,”said Dovile Vilda, research assistant professor at the Department of Social, Behavioral and Population Sciences and a lead author on the study. “Our study provides evidence that decreasing the number of abortion restrictions across the states may reduce incidence of death during pregnancy and postpartum among all women in the US.”
Lol you edited that like 10 times for such an underwhelming cope.
What do you think "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life" means if not that they weren't alive until they breathed their first breath? Do you vibe with the rapist because you share a reading level?
Oh you're lying? Why am I not surprised?
"28-year-old Texas woman who died from an infection after doctors allegedly delayed treating her miscarriage for about 40 hours, reigniting concerns about the state’s strict abortion laws."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-abortion-bans-deaths-agonies.html
https://msmagazine.com/2024/11/04/women-die-abortion-ban-elections-vote/
Make no mistake. People die when their access to healthcare is restricted, delayed, or outpriced. Abortions are healthcare, and if we can't provide them safely, or at all, people will die, or perform unsafe abortions themselves.
Why don't republicans campaign for parental leave? Baby bonuses? Free healthcare? Things that would make having a child in this day and age anything but a death sentence for someone living paycheque to paycheque who just got raped? You think they'll just break the law and do it once there's a nationwide ban? [That wasn't the case for a women who had to sit there with her insides exposed to air and bacteria who miscarried but couldn't receive attention until the doomed fetus' heart stopped. 40 hours.] (https://www.news10.com/news/national/texas-woman-died-after-waiting-40-hours-for-abortion-during-miscarriage-report/)
Sorry my mistake. They already are dying in droves. 1 is too many.
Y'all are going to experience the biggest decline in standard of living in history. Women will die by the droves. The party of forced birth and cutting social security. Not to mention the mass deportation that's going to cost billions. Plus taxes will go up except for rich rapists and Elon.
Yeah try not to bury your head in the sand when you get nothing but propaganda and bullshit shoveled down your throat. And where do you stand on criminalizing Ang actual journalism? They're all for it.
You're dead wrong bud. They'll let the mother die, every single time.
You also like not being able to treat miscarriage until the fetal heartbeat stops, leading to situations where women wait with their insides exposed to bacteria because the doctors can't commit a crime and save their life? You like when someone gets raped and has to carry their rapists baby to term? Incest? Children? There's no exceptions.
You also like not being able to treat miscarriage until the fetal heartbeat stops, leading to situations where women wait with their insides exposed to bacteria because the doctors can't commit a crime and save their life? You like when someone gets raped and has to carry their rapists baby to term? Incest? Children? There's no exceptions.
But yes really.
You mean the basic tenants of capitalism? Do I have something for you, comrade