Judicial Misconduct Case Study

What factors may have contributed to the judges’ misconduct in this case? One factor founded in this case is that the two judges were corrupted. They receive profits to send juvenile offenders to two private correctional facilities PA Child Care LLC and a sister company, Western PA Child Care LLC (Associated Press, 2009). The payout for them doing this misconduct was $2.6 million. Another misconduct founded was that the judges denied many of the juvenile offenders their constitutional rights for a trial and to be defended. Associated Press (2009) discussed that many of the juveniles only received a hearing that lasted a minute or two before they were sent to jail or prison for their minor offenses. Now I understand that the constitution states …show more content…
The judge need to discuss with both party of the case. Another recommendations I would suggest is to investigate and reviews complaints against judges and, when warranted, conducts hearings regarding the alleged misconduct where evidence is presented. If a judge who is found to be engage in misconduct or wrongdoing then sanctions against the judge will be impose. Any judges found conducting misconduct such as; allowing family, social or political relationships to influence judicial decision-making, conflicts of interest, giving or receiving gifts, bribes, loans or favors. The judges will be removed from the bench, being involuntarily retired or being publicly disciplined. Another recommendation I would suggest is that judges from time to time would need to be reviewed to make sure there is no bias in decision making in his cases. They also must be reminded that they are government officials who must follow strict principles and rules in order to justly uphold the constitution, and the laws of the U.S., and when these officials do not, they must be punished to prevent further misconduct from