Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr.
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A new meme about an old (2011) case (the PA "Cash for Kids" scandal) suggests that horrific abuse of the Justice system was about "selling black teens to prisons." THAT part, the racial angle, is WRONG. The majority of those victimized were white...and most were jailed on minor offenses, that usually resulted in no detention at all.
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A new meme about an old (2011) case (the PA "Cash for Kids" scandal) suggests that horrific abuse of the Justice system was about "selling black teens to prisons." THAT part, the racial angle, is WRONG. The majority of those victimized were white...and most were jailed on minor offenses, that usually resulted in no detention at all.
Hillary Transue, convicted and jailed after creating a fake, humorous Myspace page about her school’s vice principal at age 14, Justin Bodnar, 12, who'd cursed at another student’s mother and Ed Kenzakoski, 17, who actually did nothing at all, but was jailed despite his innocence, where all white, as were most of the other victims were. (https://nypost.com/…/film-details-teens-struggles-in-state…/)
The NPR headline here (https://www.npr.org/…/pa-judge-sentenced-to-28-years-in-mas…) used in the meme reflects the misleading reporting on this case. It WASN'T about "selling black teens to prisons," as the majority of the victims were white...BUT apparently that doesn't garner much sympathy these days.
Judge Mark A. Ciavarella was a judge in Luzerne County, PA, a county, which as of the 2010 census, the county was 90.7% White, just 3.4% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 1.0% Asian, 3.3% other race, and 1.5% were of two or more races. 6.7% of the population were of Hispanic or Latino ancestry.
So, WHY does the media continue to misreport on incidents like this?
Well, it ISN'T an accident...
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