Kids for Cash Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2. 8 Million Kickback Scheme

Name: Kids for Cash Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2. 8 Million Kickback Scheme
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ISBN: 9781620970409

ISBN-10: 1620970406

ISBN-13: 9781620970409

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Authors: William Ecenbarger

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Philadelphia Inquirer reporter William Ecenbarger comes an exposé of a shocking scandal that ruined thousands of young lives, in paperback for the first time. As the Boston Globe wrote, "The story is incredible: Thousands of children wrongfully sentenced to juvenile detention centers, many without legal representation and after cursory hearings, by two rogue judges in northern Pennsylvania who received millions of dollars in bribes from the private institutions' owners." The story has all the elements of true-crime legal thrillers--mafia connections, colorful characters, corruption. The Philadelphia Review of Books called the story "harrowing," the Library…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 9/2/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

He has been a staff writer for Reader's Digest for nearly twenty years. He was part of a team that received the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 in the Breaking News category for reports on the Three Mile Island incident. He lives in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.