Justice in Pennsylvania? Better Late than Never

by Kids Forward | November 9, 2009

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The Pennsylavania Supreme Court has thrown out over 6,500 juvenile cases that either were or may have been impacted by the “kickback” scheme in Lucerene County in which two local judges accepted money from a provider of a residential center – the more judges sentenced kids to the center, the more they got back! Adjudications in cases in which youth appeared before the two judges between 2003 and 2008 were overturned.

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