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Kids for Cash. Kids for Cash is a 2013 documentary film about the "kids for cash" scandal which unfolded in 2008 over judicial kickbacks in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Two judges were found guilty of accepting kickbacks in exchange for sending thousands of juveniles to detention centers when probation or a lesser penalty would have been ...
The scandal was featured in Capitalism: A Love Story, the 2009 documentary by Michael Moore. [80] [81] A full-length documentary covering the scandal titled Kids for Cash was released in February 2014, [82] and has been favorably reviewed.
Robert May is an American film producer. He was a producer of The War Tapes [1] and The Station Agent, [2] an executive producer of Stevie [3] and The Fog of War, [4] and the director and a producer of Kids for Cash. [5] [6] The Fog of War won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.
In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal ...
Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks have been ordered to pay damages to nearly 300 people.
Mark Arthur Ciavarella Jr. (born March 3, 1950) is an American convicted felon and former President Judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, who was involved, along with fellow judge Michael Conahan, in the "Kids for cash" scandal in 2008, [4] for which he was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison in 2011.
The Gift, like a lot of the other biographical examinations of Cash, provides a harrowing account of the singer's childhood. That includes both a rough home life and the death of his brother, two ...
Netflix ’s new docuseries The Man with 1000 Kids has left viewers shocked and outraged. The three-part documentary, released on Wednesday (July 3), centers on the controversial case of Dutch ...