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A few weeks later, four children who had been left alone at the hotel for hours died in a fire. By 1989, Mayor Ed Koch’s administration had succeeded in closing many of the city’s crime-ridden welfare hotels, including the Brooklyn Arms. Slattery’s management group soon set its sights on a new pot of government money: prison halfway houses.
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 ...
Children 3 Donald Ray Cressey (April 27, 1919 – July 21, 1987) was an American penologist , sociologist , and criminologist who made innovative contributions to the study of organized crime , prisons , criminology, the sociology of criminal law , white-collar crime .
The first for-profit prison, and prison to use forced, incarcerated labor, was created in New York State, with the construction of the Auburn Prison completed in 1817. [18] The Auburn Prison contained several factories that used water power from the nearby Owasco River , and prisoners were forced to work in particular workshops assigned to them.
A judge sentenced a Powell man to five years in federal prison after he admitted to embezzling more than $26 million from his employer. Yi He, 36, had previously pleaded guilty in U.S. District ...
Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education is in its 25th year of helping children with parents in prison succeed through scholarships and mentoring.
Embezzlement (from Anglo-Norman, from Old French besillier ("to torment, etc."), of unknown origin) [1] is a term commonly used for a type of financial crime, usually involving theft of money from a business or employer. It often involves a trusted individual taking advantage of their position to steal funds or assets, most commonly over a ...
Data shows that just having a school-based police officer makes it more likely that a child will be referred to law enforcement for even minor infractions — potentially pushing kids into the justice system for misdeeds like vandalism, more generally known as the school-to-prison pipeline.