Biden Commutes Sentence of Judge Who Took Kickbacks for Sending Kids to For-Profit Juvenile Detention
Biden Commutes Sentence of Judge Who Took Kickbacks for Sending Kids to For-Profit Juvenile Detention
Biden finally figures out how to ignore norms, and uses it for this.
It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
Capitalism hasn't spent decades, and a depressingly small ampunt of money, capturing the political class, to improve the lives of the working class.
What the fuck?
This is the correct reaction, for those of us playing at home
There it is, you don't make a grandstand announcement unless you want to misdirect. Largest pardon ever, just don't look to close.
If you think it's not that bad, read about a lawsuit against a for-profit Youth Correctional Facility near Jackson, Mississippi.
I grew up in MS and was detained in county juvenile facilities multiple times. It's awful.
The place mentioned in that article was one of the places they'd threaten you with, and the rumors about what happened to kids there were terrifying. Thank God I never went to one, the county ones were bad enough. That's where I found out I didn't actually have any rights.
Can't believe he pardoned a judge profiteering off of that shitshow.
Mississippi is corrupt af
dude making a turd sausage out of his legacy.
His entire career has been turd sausage.
yeah, but now... it's like 90% turd.
It's not like his sausage didn't have a few segregationist and war criminal turds in it already
yeah. same with genocide accomplice turds
"Fuck them kids"
-Biden
Whaaaaat the fuuuuck
FYI, national review are a bunch of lying bigots and nothing they say should ever be taken as fact
Good point. Take your choice of alternate sources:
There are hundreds of other sources with the exact same story.The issue isn't the source it's that it points Biden as being the POS he's always been
Elites just know that cat is out of the bag or what?
2 factions of elites fighting, nothing to see here...
Fuck this fucking country.
Fuck you, Joe.
And you'd still vote for him in any case. Why the outrage
Maybe they like the canidate that acknowledges global warming exists
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Have fun with "for profit" judges regularly under Trump.
On brand for Biden...
Maybe he’ll pardon his dogs Major and Commander next. Joe fucking Biden 🤦♂️
Disgusting. I should have know whom genocide joe would be pardoning.
Yo Joe, do a funny, pardon yourself.
Fucking Christ on a pogo stick.
WTAF. These kinds of judges should be given the harshest of sentences.
I wonder if all the other commutation were cover to release those two who had no business being released.
Honestly not that big a deal.
Dude was sentenced in September of 2011 to 17.5 years. He'd have been released in February of 2028, so about 4 and quarter years from now. He's already served about 75% of his sentence. He's spent the last 4 years on house arrest.
Everyone involved in this scheme went to jail and had to pay restitution, and this guy's off the bench, retired, and thus incapable of re-offending in the same way.
This seems like a textbook case of the President's commutation powers, and now the state won't have to spend extra money on him.
Biden commuted just shy of 1500 sentences and the media latched onto this case because it's sensational. If this is the worst of the bunch then it was a good move.
Our incarceration goals should be to reintegrate people into society not just to put unsavory people in time out.
Honestly not that big a deal.
I bet it was to the kids he unjustly imprisoned and their families.
Our incarceration goals should be to reintegrate people into society not just to put unsavory people in time out.
Funny how that goal is only met for rich connected scumbags.
I bet it was to the kids he unjustly imprisoned and their families.
Would 4 more years of house arrest resolve that?
Funny how that goal is only meet for rich connected scumbags.
Yep, that's a systemic problem. The solution to that is not to regress to a worse outcome for all cases but to advocate for a better outcome for all cases.
I think the reason there is pushback is because it's clear the justice system does a lot of protecting its own when the opposite should be the norm.
If you're a judge and you harm the public for personal benefit, you have harmed far more than a normal citizen is able to extend their harm. Further, you were put in a position to uphold the public trust and the law and you broke both.
In such a case, the punishment should unfortunately be much more extreme and the task re-integration into society should be much more rigorous, but because he was a judge they're like "skip all that, just pardon him." I think this guy needs a lot more re-integration than your standard violent offender because your standard violent offender wasn't a thoughtful calculating asshole. Violence is often committed without thought and with emotion. What this judge did was premeditated, thought out, executed, and flat out didn't care about the consequences to the individuals he harmed. He is, in many eyes, a much bigger danger to society because of how smart and calculating he is, and how he knows how to twist the law to his own favor. His knowledge of the law may literally give him a leg up in defending himself in court and in the eyes of the public. All this should be being considered before freeing him back to inflict more pain on society, as such men are wont to do, like Steve Bannon.
People are tired of seeing two different justice systems applied unevenly and then being told to swallow it and that it's not a big deal. Especially when white collar criminals regularly re-enter society to re-offend and take years to be brought to justice... again.