Re:The trip to federal prison from court to your new bed (2004)
by spacemanmatt on Sunday July 06, 2014 @08:34PM
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You greatly overestimate the care one judge can muster about the prison system. They are complicit at best, and we have already seen a couple judges convicted for sending innocent 'customers' to private prisons in which they held stock on from which they received kickbacks.
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Re:The trip to federal prison from court to your new bed (2004)
by tptacek on Sunday July 06, 2014 @09:04PM
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There was the famous PA "kids-for-cash" scheme. What's the other case?
Re:The trip to federal prison from court to your new bed (2004)
by ewoodrich on Sunday July 06, 2014 @10:53PM
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The PA case also resulted in a conviction on 12 counts, with the corrupt judge ultimately being sentenced to 28 years in federal prison.
Re:The trip to federal prison from court to your new bed (2004)
by thaumaturgy on Sunday July 06, 2014 @11:12PM
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There were two judges convicted in that case.
Re:The trip to federal prison from court to your new bed (2004)
by tptacek on Monday July 07, 2014 @12:17AM
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A-ha. Thank you.
Re:The trip to federal prison from court to your new bed (2004)
by ufmace on Monday July 07, 2014 @12:03AM
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Not that those things haven't happened, but this sounds overly cynical to me. Yeah, the bad part is that the system tends to be dirty, and sometimes does very dirty things to people who don't have the money or influence to fight it. On the other hand, if you have money for lawyers, or any influence with the media or politicians, then dirty tricks like that tend not to fly.
You'd have to ask a lawyer, probably one who practices federal criminal law, how such a thing would actually work, but I'm going to guess that if your problem is that the BOP keeps transferring you endlessly, then a lawyer could make a case for filing some kind of suit in almost any jurisdiction, and so you can take your pick of judges and courts.