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The school was founded in 1826 [2] and was the oldest surviving school of its type in the United States until all residents were ordered removed on March 25, 2019, by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services. [3] The school's licenses were subsequently revoked for not complying with the state's Human Services Code and regulations. [4]
The kids for cash scandal centered on judicial kickbacks to two judges at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US. [1] In 2008, judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella were convicted of accepting money in return for imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles to increase occupancy at a private prison operated ...
Bethany Rodgers is a USA TODAY Network Pennsylvania capital bureau investigative journalist. This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Biden commutes sentence of Pa. judge in 'kids for ...
PA Child Care is a juvenile detention center [1] in Pittston Township, Pennsylvania. It was opened in February 2003. [2] It has a sister company, Western PA Child Care, [3] in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Treatment at both facilities is provided by Mid Atlantic Youth Services, and both were involved in the kids for cash scandal in 2008.
In an TODAY.com exclusive clip of “The Program,” multiple teenagers are filmed being “abducted” in the middle of the night and sent to The Academy at Ivy Ridge.
“These kids were just warehoused,” said Stacey Gurian-Sherman, a juvenile justice advocate and former state juvenile justice staffer in Maryland who helped expose some of the problems at Correctional Services Corp. facilities. “The staff is untrained, and they end up working double and triple eight-hour shifts.
And about three in four inmates executed in South Carolina since 1912 have been Black, according to Department of Corrections data. After the state’s first execution in 13 years this past Friday ...
But in Michigan, 28 kids in adult facilities spent an average of 52 days each in punitive segregation between 2011 and 2013. Seventy-nine kids spent an average of 24 days each in some other form of isolation such as protective custody, according to prison documents.