Two 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 children who fell victim to their crimes
FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept., 15, 2009, file photo, former Luzerne County Court Judges Michael Conahan, front left, and Mark Ciavarella, front right, leave the United States District Courthouse in Scranton, Pa. The two 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 children who fell victim to their crimes. U.S.
Ciavarella ordered children as young as 8 to detention, many of them first-time offenders convicted of petty theft and other minor crimes. The judge often ordered youths he had found delinquent to be immediately shackled, handcuffed and taken away without giving them a chance to say goodbye to their families.
Ciavarella is serving a 28-year prison sentence. Conahan, who was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison, wasin 2020 — with six years left on his sentence — because of the coronavirus pandemic. Conner ruled after hearing testimony last fall from 282 people who appeared in Ciavarella's courtroom — 79 of whom were under 13 when Ciavarella sent them to juvenile detention — and 32 parents.
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