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Bookmark or Share- Victims ‘shocked’ after Biden grants clemency to ‘kids-for-cash’ judge ...Former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan was convicted in 2011 in what was infamously called the “kids-for-cash” scandal, where he took kickbacks from for-profit detention centers in exchange...
- Former judges who sent kids to jail for kickbacks must pay more ... - NPRIn what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in...
- Kids for cash scandal - WikipediaThe kids for cash scandal centered on judicial kickbacks to two judges at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US. [1] In 2008, judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella were convicted of accepting money in return for imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles to increase occupancy at a private prison operated ...
- Kids for Cash - WikipediaKids for Cash is a 2013 documentary film about the "kids for cash" scandal which unfolded in 2008 over judicial kickbacks in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Two judges were found guilty of accepting kickbacks in exchange for sending thousands of juveniles to detention centers when probation or a lesser penalty would have been appropriate.
- 'Every day I have to fight to live when I really don't want to ... - WNEPWhat's become known as the ‘Kids for Cash’ scandal rocked the county 15 years ago. But, more than 100 miles away, Paterson, New Jersey has one of that state's highest crime rates, according...
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