Ciavarella Research Paper

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Juveniles often spent days and weeks at PA child care even before getting in to see

Ciavarella. Yet even worse once the trials were heard before Ciavarella ,Ciavarella’s hearings

took no longer that a matter of minutes. Ecenbarger writes about the several kids who

awaited lengthy times before getting a hearing, and once they did it didn’t take long. He writes

‘’thirteen year old Fred was held at PA Child Care for nineteen days before he got a

hearing.When fred finally went before ciavarella his mother assumed he would be ordered

into counseling and so she didn’t retain an attorney but after a two-minute hearing,Fred was

taken away in shackles to camp adams for three months’’ (65). as a result his mother was

assessed several

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