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 ...

Pennsylvania has the dubious distinction of being home to one of the most notorious judicial crimes in U.S. history. But five years after the masterminds behind the "kids-for-cash" scandal went to ...

Michael Conahan, the disgraced former Luzerne County judge convicted in the "Kids for Cash" scandal, had his sentence commuted by President Joe Biden, the White House announced on Thursday, Dec. 12.

“Kids for Cash” made some of the latter over the weekend. The movie about the Luzerne County judicial scandal premiered Thursday at R/C Wilkes Barre Movies 14 and Cinemark in Moosic and has since has ...

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) - A judge in northeastern Pennsylvania has combined a series of civil lawsuits into a class-action case in the so-called "kids for cash" scandal involving for-profit juvenile ...