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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Product Group
- Book
- Signed
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Weight
- 1 lbs
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- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1595586849
ISBN-13
9781595586841
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109083837
Product Key Features
Book Title
Kids for Cash : Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2. 6 Million Kickback Scheme
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Criminal Law / Juvenile Offenders, Criminal Law / General, Penology, Criminal Law / Sentencing
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-021136
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"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. . . . William Ecenbarger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, has brought this stunning story to book form in a deeply researched, compelling tale." -- The Boston Globe "The worst stain (so far) on Pennsylvania, a state with more than its share of stains, is that of the Luzerne County judges who sent thousands of children to private prisons in exchange for millions of dollars in kickbacks. . . . Bill Ecenbarger offers a detail-packed, sickening account of the scandal and its impact. Anyone caring about courts, justice or children should read it." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "If only this were fiction. William Ecenbarger deserves our gratitude for shining the brightest of spotlights on a tragic, scandalous situation that brought pain and devastation to the lives of countless children and their families. Kids for Cash demands the attention of everyone who cares about justice." -- Bob Herbert , Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos and former New York Times Op-Ed columnist "A chilling account of how two Pennsylvania judges traded children''s freedom for personal profit while the rest of the Commonwealth looked the other way. Parents will tuck their children in a bit tighter after reading this true-crime heart-stopper." -- Nell Bernstein , award-winning journalist and author of All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated "William Ecenbarger exposes Pennsylvania's recent juvenile justice disgrace wherein thousands of youth were illegally sentenced to a private detention facility in exchange for millions in kickbacks for the judges who sentenced them. His heartfelt, articulate outrage raises disturbing and critical questions about the destructive power of greed in our criminal justice system, and the legal and social systems that support it through silent acquiescence."-- Tara Herivel , attorney, author and co-editor of Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration and Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America''s Poor "A gripping and inspirational ''must read'' for anyone concerned about the health and well-being of children." -- Liz Ryan , President and CEO of Campaign for Youth Justice "A gripping story of judicial incompetence, a system that ignored it, and the thousands of kids scarred for life--a story that begs for juvenile justice reform across America." -- Steven C. Teske , Chief Judge, Juvenile Court of Clayton County, GA, author of Reform Juvenile Justice Now "An unimaginable story of abuse, greed, and corruption that also reveals the broader problems with our society''s failure to protect some of its most vulnerable, powerless, and at-risk members--a critically important book." -- Bryan Stevenson , founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, New York University Professor of Clinical Law "This exposé of judicial indiscretion, greed, and money laundering reads like a thriller. The setting is the Luzerne County, PA, juvenile court system between 2003 and 2008, when two judges mishandled the criminal cases of thousands of children. After presenting a rather unflattering history of the region, citing a 'culture of corruption,' Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist [William] Ecenbarger describes the background and criminal activities that form the heart of the case. The book is based on 200 interviews and reflects the author's insider knowledge of the scandal, which he covered for the Philadelphia Enquirer . . . . A solid, shocking work of investigative journalism, recommended for civic-minded general readers and students of juvenile justice issues." -- Library Journal, "If only this were fiction. William Ecenbarger deserves our gratitude for shining the brightest of spotlights on a tragic, scandalous situation that brought pain and devastation to the lives of countless children and their families. Kids for Cash demands the attention of everyone who cares about justice." -- Bob Herbert , Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos and former New York Times Op-Ed columnist "A chilling account of how two Pennsylvania judges traded children's freedom for personal profit while the rest of the Commonwealth looked the other way. Parents will tuck their children in a bit tighter after reading this true-crime heart-stopper." -- Nell Bernstein , award-winning journalist and author of All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated "William Ecenbarger exposes Pennsylvania's recent juvenile justice disgrace wherein thousands of youth were illegally sentenced to a private detention facility in exchange for millions in kickbacks for the judges who sentenced them. His heartfelt, articulate outrage raises disturbing and critical questions about the destructive power of greed in our criminal justice system, and the legal and social systems that support it through silent acquiescence." -- Tara Herivel , attorney, author and co-editor of Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration and Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor "A gripping and inspirational 'must read' for anyone concerned about the health and well-being of children." -- Liz Ryan , President and CEO of Campaign for Youth Justice
Dewey Decimal
365/.4209748
Synopsis
Kids for Cash reveals the twisted and haunting realities of juvenile justice in America today. This gripping investigation follows the Pennsylvania case in which judges took cash payments for sending children to a privatised juvenile detention facility. In a shocking case that made international news, two judges were convicted of accepting millions of dollars in bribes by the owners of juvenile detention centres., When thirteen-year-old Matthew appeared in front of Judge Mark Ciavarella for throwing a piece of steak at his mother's boyfriend, he was sentenced to seven weeks at PA Child Care, a private, for-profit juvenile detention center in northeastern Pennsylvania. Angelia was fourteen when she and a friend scrawled "Vote for Michael Jackson" on five stop signs. Charged with vandalism and defacing public property, Angelia was sent by Ciavarella to PA Child Care without her epilepsy medication and suffered a grand mal seizure her second night. Fifteen-year-old Charlie, arrested for unknowingly purchasing a stolen motorbike, was convicted of a felony and sent to PA Child Care for six weeks. Matthew, Angelia, and Charlie are just three children among the thousands who appeared in Ciavarella's courtroom between 2003 and 2008 and were sent away--often with no attorney present and after only cursory hearings--to a detention facility in which, it later came to light, Ciavarella had a personal financial stake. As Kids for Cash reveals, this miscarriage of justice underscores a multitude of problems with our juvenile justice system, which too often criminalizes standard adolescent behavior, treats adolescents more harshly than if they were adults, and denies them their most fundamental constitutional rights. William Ecenbarger, a Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award-winning investigative journalist who covered the case for the Philadelphia Inquirer, now gives us the first book-length account of this shocking story. In the tradition of true-crime legal thrillers from The Executioner's Song to A Civil Action , Ecenbarger exposes a deeply corrupt and broken system that ruined the lives of many children and ultimately led to the judge's conviction on charges of racketeering, fraud, tax violations, money laundering, extortion, and bribery. Fastidiously researched and utterly propulsive, Kids for Cash takes us deep inside a profoundly flawed legal system, revealing the twisted and haunting realities of America's juvenile justice system., The shocking story of the judges who were found guilty in federal court of engaging in a criminal conspiracy to send thousands of kids to a for-profit juvenile detention facility in exchange for cash payments--and who were finally ordered to pay hundreds of millions in damages to the victims of their scheme From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Philadelphia Inquirer reporter William Ecenbarger comes the exposé of a shocking scandal that ruined thousands of young lives. 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 a true-crime legal thriller--mafia connections, colorful characters, corruption--and was made into a documentary of the same title released in theaters in 2014. But the survivors of the harrowing ordeal have finally gotten some justice: in August 2022, it was ordered that the disgraced judges must pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages to the victims. When it was first released, Kids for Cash brought the story to national attention, where it has stayed ever since. As the Philadelphia Inquirer pointed out, this is the "worst stain on Pennsylvania, a state with more than its share of stains. . . . Ecenbarger offers a detail-packed, sickening account of the scandal and its impact. Anyone caring about courts, justice, or children should read it."
LC Classification Number
HV9105.P22E34 2012
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