It ain't all in Illinois and Louisiana, folks. The big news in Luzerne County is that two judges are accused of getting huge kickbacks for funneling kids into a private juvenile detention center. If indeed guilty, they evidently managed to get the county's detention center condemned and sent lots and lots of kids into this new private center their "friends" built. In Louisiana, you let your brother-in-law's construction company build a really expensive bridge somewhere. But to send kids to juvie whether they need to go or not just to make money? The thought makes you sick, doesn't it? Of course, innocent until proven guilty. There was another scandal around here a few months ago where a woman was accused of stealing from a charity account of donations meant to support spouses and children of soldiers sent to Iraq and Afghanistan. This also seems pretty low on the moral scale. Makes trying to sell a Senate seat look like a bad business decision in comparison.
There is corruption everywhere. To quote Captain Renaud in Casablanca, "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" But I really feel that (if guilty) these local folk lower the bar to new levels of scumbag-ness. Anytime you harm children for your own personal gain, you have sunk below reproach.
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