On any given night in the U.S., there are approximately 60,500 youth confined in juvenile correctional facilities...
It is one of the most profitable parts of the privatized prison industry, with prisons being paid up to $150,000 per juvenile per year by government...
Juvenile confinement has also been shown to be a thoroughly corrupt system in Los Angeles County, California, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and in Glynn County, Georgia...
Part of the expanding American Gulag... LINKS:
[1] Uncompromising Photos Expose Juvenile Detention in America
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/04/photog-hopes-to-effect-policy-with-survey-of-juvenile-lock-ups/?pid=1964
[2] 11-02-18 Pennsylvania Judge Guilty Of Racketeering In Kickback Case (Kids for Cash Scandal)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49134308/
[3] 11-11-13 Glynn County, Georgia: Kids for cash redux?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/72601318/
[4] 10-05-01 Kids for Cash Luzerne County Pennsylvania vs Los Angeles County California ABA Journal news and comments
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30840581/
[5] 10-06-10 ACLU: With 5 Percent of the Worlds Population US Holds 25 Percent of Prisoners
http://www.scribd.com/doc/32762931/
[6] 11-11-13 In re Imprisonment of Lt. Commander Walter Fitzpatrick, III, in Monroe County, Tennessee - “What goes on there is more like gulags of centuries ago.”
http://www.scribd.com/doc/72546279/
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