Two former 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 people they ...

Fresh from our “Unconscionable” file, the Miami Herald is reporting that former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella was convicted Friday of racketeering in a $2.8 million “kids for cash” plot to send ...

Michael Conahan, the disgraced former Luzerne County judge convicted in the "Kids for Cash" scandal, had his sentence commuted by President Joe Biden, the White House announced on Thursday, Dec. 12.

Michael Conahan was jailed in 2011 for detaining thousands of children in juvenile detention centers in exchange for kickbacks.

“Kids for Cash” made some of the latter over the weekend. The movie about the Luzerne County judicial scandal premiered Thursday at R/C Wilkes Barre Movies 14 and Cinemark in Moosic and has since has ...