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This may in fact be the most morally disgusting story I've read in years, and the last few years haven't exactly been bare of festering scandals. (I'm not trying to drum up support for any political or legal crusade here, though. I'm really just venting, because right now, I have steam coming out of my ears.)
I read this on Volokh first; the original NYT story is here.
Two judges in the Wilkes-Barre area have pleaded guilty to taking kickbacks -- $2.6 million worth -- from local juvenile detention centers for sentencing young offenders to time in the facility (the facilities were reimbursed by the state on a per-prisoner basis, so the more kids they had, the more money they earned). So dozens and dozens of kids who would ordinarily have expected to get a slap on the wrist -- for writing nasty things about their high school principals on Facebook, for starting fights in the playground, that sort of thing -- received sentences of several months in the detention facility instead, all, it turns out, to line the pockets of the judges.
I figured I'd vent something about it here because otherwise I might have written something nasty on Facebook, and maybe gotten sent to jail.
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