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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A former Pennsylvania juvenile court judge was sentenced on August 11, 2011 to 28 years in prison for accepting payment to send juveniles to a for-profit detention facility in a scandal dubbed “kids for cash,”.
Former Luzerne County Juvenile Court Judge Mark Ciavarella, 61, accepted nearly $1 million from a developer who built the detention facility, prosecutors said.
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