Judges Who Sent Kids To For-Profit Prisons For Cash Must Pay $200 Million | AM 600 WMT
The money will be divided between more than 300 juveniles who were jailed.
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The money will be divided between more than 300 juveniles who were jailed.
Ciavarella and Conahan were ordered to pay hundreds of people they victimized
Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups.
Two Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks have been ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of children who fell victim to their crimes.
The money will be divided between more than 300 juveniles who were jailed.