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389. Gangster law

By Joel Jacobsen

Everyone knows it was pretty bad in Luzerne County (Scranton Wilkes-Barre) when the top-heavy courthouse was presided over by Judges Mark A. Ciavarella and Michael T. Conahan, who last February pled guilty to selling children to a private detention facility, but recently were permitted to withdraw their guilty pleas. In case you missed it, Prosecutors allege the two judges participated in a scheme in which Conahan, the northeastern Pennsylvania county's former president judge, shut down the county-owned juvenile detention center in 2002 and signed an agreement with PA Child Care L.L.C. to send youth offenders to its new facility near Wilkes-Barre.Ciavarella, who presided over juvenile court, sent youths to the detention center and to a sister facility in Western Pennsylvania while he was taking payments, according to prosecutors...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on September 27, 2009 (boomark / email).