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Loading... Kids for Cash: Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2.6 Million Kickback Schemeby William Ecenbarger
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Couldn't really like this book, it's too disturbing. NOT a good thing, and hard to read about like books on slavery or the Shoah or the Hunger. How can people do this to each other? I am glad that the information is out, but it's hard to deal with it as part of my world. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Matthew, Angelia, and Charlie are just three children among the thousands who appeared in Judge Mark A. Ciavarella's courtroom between 2003 and 2008 and were sent away to a detention facility in which, it later came to light, Ciavarella had a personal financial stake. The author shows how this miscarriage of justice underscores a multitude of problems with our juvenile justice system, which too often criminalizes standard adolescent behavior, treats adolescents more harshly than if they were adults, and denies them their most fundamental constitutional rights. No library descriptions found. |
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