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The kids for cash scandal centered on judicial kickbacks to two judges at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US. 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 by ...
Aug 18, 2022 · In 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 illegal ...
Kids 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.
Aug 17, 2022 · Two Pennsylvania judges who took kickbacks to imprison children in private prisons were ordered to compensate hundreds of victims in a civil suit. The kids-for-cash scandal involved a zero-tolerance policy, capricious sentences and some deaths of former inmates.
Aug 18, 2022 · Two former Pennsylvania judges who ran a scheme to send children to for-profit prisons for kickbacks have been ordered to pay more than $US200 million to victims in a civil suit. The 'kids-for-cash' scandal involved thousands of juvenile convictions that were later overturned by the state supreme court.
Learn how Juvenile Law Center exposed and challenged the judicial corruption that sent hundreds of children to private facilities for minor offenses. See the documentary, the lawsuit and the outcomes of the scandal.
Feb 1, 2023 · Two former state judges who took kickbacks to send children to private prisons were found liable for $106.3 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages by a federal judge. The victims, who were as young as eight years old, suffered emotional, physical, and mental harm from their wrongful incarceration.
