NEVER MESS WITH ANY WOMAN CALLED HILLARY!

HILLARY TRANSUE was jailed for a MySpace parody of her school principal. The celebrated Michael Moore started much the same way but this gorgeous young student was jailed by a Pennsylvania JUDGE who was on the TAKE from THE KIDDIE JAIL WHERE HE PLACED HER. He'd accepted 2.5 million bucks to indict and imprison CHILDREN!

While Hillary was in jail her lawyers researched the Judge's ties to the KIDDIE CLINK and exposed America's "cash for putting kids in a carrot cooler," scandal.  Judge denied kickbacks for imprisoning youths but got convicted, six years in the COOLER for jailing hundreds of children during a 7 year REIGN of TERROR! Slapping a friend or having tantrum led to prison!

  By Ed Pilkington in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
also in "The Guardian, Saturday 7 March 2009

Hillary Transue was 14 when she carried out her prank. She built a hoax
MySpace page in which she posed as the vice-principal of her school, poking
fun at the woman's strictness. At the bottom of the page she added a disclaimer just
to make sure everyone knew it was a joke. "When you find this I hope you
have a sense of humour," she wrote.

Humour is not in abundance, it seems, in Luzerne County, northern
Pennsylvania. In January 2007 Transue was charged with harassment. She was
called before the juvenile court in Wilkes-Barre, an old coal town about 20
miles from her home.

Less than a minute into the hearing the gavel came down. "Adjudicated
delinquent!" the judge proclaimed, and sentenced her to three months in a
juvenile detention centre. Hillary, who hadn't even presented her side of
the story, was handcuffed and led away. But her mother, Laurene, protested
to the local law centre, setting in train a process that would uncover one
of the most egregious violations of children's rights in US legal history.

Last month the judge involved, Mark Ciavarella, and the presiding judge of
the juvenile court, Michael Conahan, pleaded guilty to having accepted $2.6m
 from the co-owner and builder of a private detention centre where
children aged from 10 to 17 were locked up.

The cases of up to 2,000 children put into custody by Ciavarella over the
past seven years - including that of Transue - are now being reviewed in a
billowing scandal dubbed "kids for cash". The alleged racket has raised
questions about the cosy ties between the courts and private contractors,
and about the harsh treatment meted out to adolescents.

NOTE: He was jailed.See NY TIMES STORY. JUDGES CONVICTED.

Alerted by Laurene Transue, the Juvenile Law Centre in Wilkes-Barre began to
uncover scores of cases in which teenagers had been summarily sent to
custody by Ciavarella, dating as far back as 1999. One child was detained
for stealing a $4 jar of nutmeg, another for throwing a sandal at her
mother, a third aged 14 was held for six months for slapping a friend at
school.

Half of all the children who came before Ciavarella had no legal
representation, despite it being a right under state law. The Juvenile Law
Centre has issued a class action against the two judges and other implicated
parties in which it seeks compensation for more than 80 children who it
claims were victims of injustice.

The prosecution charge sheet alleges that from about June 2000 to January
2007 Ciavarella entered into an "understanding" with Conahan to concoct a
scheme to enrich themselves. The two judges conspired to strip the local
state detention centre of funding, diverting the money to a private company
called PA Child Care which it helped to build a new facility in the area.

In January 2002, prosecutors allege, Conahan signed a "placement guarantee
agreement" with the firm to send teenagers into their custody. Enough
children would be detained to ensure the firm received more than $1m a year
in public money. In late 2004 a long-term deal was secured with PACC worth
about $58m.

In return, the prosecutors allege, the judges received at least $2.6m in
kickbacks. They bought a condominium in Florida with the proceeds. PACC's
then owner, Bob Powell, who has not been charged, used to moor his yacht at
a nearby marina. He called the boat "Reel Justice".

For a man who has agreed to serve more than seven years in jail as part of a
plea bargain, Ciavarella comes across as remarkably unflustered. He invited
the Guardian into his Wilkes-Barre home where he remains free on bail
pending sentencing.

Though he pleaded guilty to conflict of interest and evasion of taxes, he
insists that he took the money in all innocence, assuming it to be a
legitimate "finder's fee" from the private company for help in building the
detention centre. He denies sending children to custody in return for
kickbacks. "Cash for kids? It never happened. People have jumped to
conclusions - I didn't do any of these things."

He says that he regarded his court as a place of treatment for troubled
adolescents, not of punishment. "I wanted these children to avoid becoming
statistics in an adult world. That's all it was, trying to help these kids
straighten out their lives."

As evidence, Ciavarella claims the percentage of children he sentenced to
custodial placements remained steady from 1996, when he was appointed to the
court, until he stood down from it in 2008. Yet the facts suggest otherwise.

For the first two years of his term his rate of custodial sentencing was
static at 4.5% of cases. In 1999 - shortly before he allegedly began the
racket with Conahan, according to prosecutors - it suddenly shot up to
13.7%. By 2004 it had risen to up to 26% of all teenagers entering his
court.

Ciavarella hopes that with good behaviour he may spend only six years in
jail.

Hillary Transue, meanwhile, is now 17 and in high school. She spent a month
in detention for the parody. For many months afterwards she was ostracised
by friends and neighbours, labelled a delinquent.

"It's nice to see him on the other side of the bench," she says of
Ciavarella. "I'm sure he understands now how it feels."

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