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Bookmark or Share- Mark Ciavarella - WikipediaMark Arthur Ciavarella Jr. (born March 3, 1950) is an American convicted felon and former President Judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, who was involved, along with fellow judge Michael Conahan, in the "Kids for cash" scandal in 2008, [4] for which he was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison in 2011.
- Judge Sentenced To 28 Years In Bribery Scandal - NPRMark Ciavarella Jr. was convicted of taking bribes from developers of juvenile detention centers. The case, known as "kids for cash" led to the tossing of 4,000 convictions...
- Pennsylvania judge gets 28 years in 'kids for cash' case - NBC NewsFormer Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in federal prison for taking $1 million in bribes from the builder of a pair of juvenile detention centers in a...
- The Pennsylvania ‘kids-for-cash’ judicial scandal, explainedThe story stretches back to the early 2000s, when former Luzerne County judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan closed a county juvenile detention facility and sent children to a for-profit facility in exchange for millions of dollars in illegal profits.
- Judges who got kickbacks for sending kids to for-profit jails ordered ...Ciavarella, who presided over juvenile court, pushed a zero-tolerance policy that guaranteed large numbers of kids would be sent to PA Child Care and its sister facility, Western PA...
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