Limits to Privatization
Posted February 12, 2009, 11:02 ET
Two Pennsylvania judges have been accused of soliciting bribes to jail kids. Remarkably, the bribes were offered not by the parents but by the jail, which had been privatized.
One of the judges in question shut down the county-run juvenile prison and helped a private company secure the prison contract. The judge then allegedly extorted bribes from the private prison.
One girl was sent to juvenile detention for three months for lampooning her assistant principal on her MySpace page.
On a plea agreement, the judges are to be sentenced to more than seven years behind bars.
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