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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 ...
1975 – Programs were developed to assist children with learning disabilities who entered the juvenile justice system. 1984 – A new missing and exploited children program was added. 1984 – Strong support was given to programs that strengthened families. 1988 – Studies on prison conditions within the Indian justice system.
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 ...
“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.
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.
In the course of reporting on a lawsuit against the Michigan prison system, I obtained a series of videos depicting the treatment of underage inmates in adult facilities, as well as hundreds of prison documents through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and other sources. (Jamie is a plaintiff in the lawsuit.)
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 ...