ArnoldRimmer on 06 May 2013
| brendude13 said: I don't fully understand what he did. He was bribed to give out maximum sentences? |
Bribery is the wrong word. Chances are nobody told him "Psst, what about a little secret deal? You send people to our prisons and for some strange reason, you'll find a black suitcase with money in it in your backyard every month."
As far as I understand, the whole underlying system is corrupt: Judges get money when they send people to jail, and the longer these people stay in jail, the more money the judge gets, and this practice is perfectly legal.
It's obvious that this will lead to a tendency of sending more people to prison for longer times, but this is the first judge who was so greedy that it just couldn't be denied that this was his motivation for usually giving maximum sentences.
