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PA: Despite Red Flags, Judges? Kickback Scheme Thrived and PA Supreme CT Orders Records Of Youth Fraudulently Sentenced to be Expunged

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Clean Slates for Youths Sentenced Fraudulently By JOHN SCHWARTZ March 26, 2009- NY Times The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on Thursday ordered the slate cleaned for hundreds of youths who had been sentenced by a corrupt judge. The young people had been sent to privately run detention centers from 2003 to 2008 as part of a judicial kickback scheme that shocked Pennsylvania and the nation. The judge in the cases, Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. of Luzerne County, is one of two who pleaded guilty last month to wire fraud and conspiracy for taking more than $2.6 million in kickbacks. The exact number of records to be expunged was not stated in the court?s order; a special master is investigating the cases. Judge Ciavarella and the other judge, Michael T...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 28, 2009 (boomark / email).