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Kids-for-cash judges ordered to pay more than $200M to hundreds of Pennsylvania children

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Judge awards $106 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages. Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan shut down county-run juvenile detention center. They accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups. Judge: "Their cruel and despicable actions victimized a vulnerable population"

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ABC Australia

'Scandal of epic proportions': US judges ordered to pay more than $288m to victims of kids-for-cash deal

Two former judges in Pennsylvania are ordered to pay millions to victims of a scheme that sent nearly 300 children to for-profit prisons in exchange for kickbacks.

3 years ago·Australia

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Daily Hampshire Gazette

Judges in Pa. kids-for-cash case ordered to pay more than $200M

3 years ago·Northampton, United States

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Houston Chronicle

Kids-for-cash judges ordered to pay more than $200M

Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit...

3 years ago·Houston, United States

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WNKY

Kids-for-cash judges ordered to pay more than $200M - WNKY News 40 Television

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 victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history. A federal judge awarded $106 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages to plaintiffs in a long-running civil suit against the judges. In what came to be known as…

3 years ago

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The Epoch Times

Kids-for-Cash Judges Ordered to Pay More Than $200 Million

Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history. U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner awarded $106 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages to nearly 300 people in a long-running civil suit against the judges, wr…

3 years ago·New York, United States

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Denver 7 News

Kids-for-cash judges ordered to pay more than $200M

A federal judge awarded $106 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages to plaintiffs in a long-running civil suit against the judges.

3 years ago·Denver, United States

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