Joe Biden has commuted sentence of Michael Conahan, so he gets out .
You remember him, he was a judge in juvenile court who shut down the county detention facility and sent children, and cut a deal with a private prison in exchange for bribes.
This guy should not have his sentence commuted. Hell, he should have spent the past 13 years being hung from a flag pole by his tongue:
A former Pennsylvania judge who was convicted of sending children to jail while receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks from the facility’s operator in the early 2000s was one of the nearly 1,500 people whose sentences were commuted Thursday by President Joe Biden.
Michael Conahan had been sentenced to 17½ years in federal prison after being convicted of racketeering conspiracy for his role in the so-called Kids for Cash scandal in Luzerne County. Conahan pulled funding from a county-owned juvenile detention center there and agreed to send juveniles to a for-profit facility in exchange for payments, a scheme that netted him and fellow jurist Mark Ciavarella nearly $3 million.
Conahan, who was convicted in 2011, had been serving his sentence in a Florida facility and was due to be released in 2026. But he was placed in home confinement in 2020 due to the pandemic.
All those commuted by Biden on Thursday had been placed in home confinement for at least a year, the White House said.
Conahan's (and Ciavarella's) actions were particularly heinous, and not only should he not have had his sentence commuted, he should have been sent back to prison as soon as the vaccine was available.
People who violate this sort of trust should be held to a higher standard, whether they be judges, cops, or district attorneys.
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