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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...pc=U531&cvid=532fb73b101e4f85910392b87fe2cbe4
these 2 Penn. judges took millions for sending kids to institutions for minor infractions:
these 2 Penn. judges took millions for sending kids to institutions for minor infractions:
In the so-called kids-for-cash scandal, Pennsylvania state judges Mark Ciavarella, 72, and Michael Conahan, 70, shuttered a county-run juvenile detention center in exchange for $2.8million in illegal payments from the co-owner and builder of two for-profit jails.
US District Judge Christopher Conner has awarded almost 300 plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the judges, with $106million in compensatory damages and $100million in punitive damages.
whether or not they ever get the money, it's still a recognition of the trauma and suffering so many kids and their families had to go throughCiaverella is serving a 28-year prison sentence in Kentucky, and is scheduled to be released in 2035.
Meanwhile, Conohan is serving a more than 17-year sentence but was released to home confinement with six years left in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.