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Shackled: A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town That Looked Away

Shackled: A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town That Looked Away

Cooper, Candy J.

Hardcover

Young Adult Nonfiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1662620136
ISBN13: 9781662620133
Publisher: Calkins Creek Books
Published: Apr 2 2024
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Awards: Yalsa Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young Adults
2025 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist
CCBC Choices 2025
2025 NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Book Winner
YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
The New York Public Library Best Books for Teens 2024

Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told by Candy J. Cooper, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist.

In the early 2000s, Judge Mark Ciavarella and Judge Michael Conahan of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania were known as no-nonsense judges. Juveniles who showed up in their courtrooms faced harsh words and even harsher sentencing. In the post-Columbine era, many people believed that was just what the county needed to ensure its children and teens stayed on the straight and narrow path. But as more and more children faced shocking sentences for seemingly benign crimes, and a newly built for-profit detention center filled up further and further, a sinister pattern of abuses and bribery emerged. Through extensive research and original reporting leading into contemporary times, award-winning journalist Candy J. Cooper tells the story of a scandal that the Juvenile Law Center calls one of the largest and most serious violations of children's rights in the history of the American legal system.

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