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Ex-Judge Michael Conahan, the jurist at the center of the so-called “Kids-for-Cash” scandal, was among 1,499 commutations Biden granted in the largest presidential act of clemency on a single day.
Juvenile offenders serve their sentences in separate prisons up to the age of 18. Burkina Faso: 13 [49] Burundi: 15 [citation needed] Cambodia: 14 [35] Cameroon: 10 [50] Canada: 12 14 [51] Children aged 12 or 13 can be sentenced to no more than 10 years of imprisonment, and children aged 14-17 can be sentenced to life imprisonment Cape Verde: 16
Latune finished the year of probation with no problems, right around her critical 16th birthday in June. Even as most of the nation has moved toward treating 16-year-olds more like the kids they are, New York’s archaic justice laws make it easier for teenagers like Latune to end up in tough jails with long sentences and an inescapable record.
The Wayne County court gave her two concurrent six-month sentences, for assault and destruction of a building. In a wealthier Michigan county, kids convicted of minor offenses are almost always sentenced to community service, like helping out at the local science center.
By April 2008, county authorities were reporting 2,000 children booked into the jail annually—200 to 300 of them from neighboring counties lacking facilities. [16] In 2008, the county built a $23,300,000 expansion of the county jail—including a 43,000 sq ft (4,000 m 2) "juvenile detention center."
Biden Shouldn't Have Commuted the Sentence of a Judge in the 'Kids for Cash' Kickback Scandal. C.J. Ciaramella. December 13, 2024 at 2:36 PM ... Conahan was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison.
Two Pennsylvania judges who sent kids as young as 8 to for-profit jails and then pocketed a cut of the revenue have been ordered to pay back more than $200 million to their victims.
The kids for cash scandal centered on judicial kickbacks to two judges at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US. [1] In 2008, judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella were convicted of accepting money in return for imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles to increase occupancy at a private prison operated ...