Judges Who Sent Kids To For-Profit Prisons For Cash Must Pay $200 Million
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.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Two former US judges from the state of Pennsylvania have been ordered to pay more than $206 million to the victims of a scheme they... 17.08.2022, Sputnik International
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The money will be divided between more than 300 juveniles who were jailed.
Washington, Aug 17 (Prensa Latina) Two Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit prisons in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay over million to hundreds who fell victim to their crimes, CBS reported on Wednesday. In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan judges locked up a country-run juvenile detention center and accepted .8 million in illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups.