EYEWITNESS NEWS (WBRE/WYOU) — There is outrage and lots of questions coming from the victims of the Kids for Cash scheme in the aftermath of United States President Joe Biden’s clemency action for ...

Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks have been ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they ...

(WBRE/WYOU) — The attorney involved in the “Kids for Cash” scandal was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison and $3.5 ...

SCRANTON, Pa. (WBRE/WYOU) — President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of disgraced “Kids for Cash” Judge Michael Conahan, and one victim is expressing anger over it. Conahan and fellow Judge Mark ...

More than 15 years after the “kids for cash” scandal shocked the nation, it’s back, stirring not just public incredulity but, for some, soul-slicing memories of hell on Earth. Conahan, along with Mark ...

Former Luzerne County Juvenile Court Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. was convicted in 2011 for accepting $2.1 million from the builder and developer of a privately owned juvenile detention center that ...

Years after 'Kids for Cash', there's a new crisis unfolding yet again in Luzerne County's juvenile justice system: a lack of detention beds. Without it, there's nowhere to hold the county's most ...

The story of Luzerne County’s judicial scandal has gone international — again. Director Robert May’s 102-minute non-fiction film, “Kids for Cash,” recently was shown at film festivals thousands of ...