Published on Mar 3, 2014
"Kids for Cash, opening on February 28 in New York and major cities.
The story begins in 2003 in a courthouse
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Published on Mar 3, 2014
"Kids for Cash, opening on February 28 in New York and major cities.
The story begins in 2003 in a courthouse in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, when Judge Mark Ciavarella began sentencing teenagers to juvenile detention centers for offenses as minor as trespassing in a an abandoned building or poking fun at a principal with a mock MySpace page.
For the next six years, over 3,000 children would be swept into the juvenile justice system under a "zero tolerance" policy.
Most of the defendants had been convinced to waive their right to a lawyer.
Many were taken away in shackles.
Once in the system, some of the kids were incarcerated for years."
