Ciavarella was the ringmaster behind one of the biggest prison scandals in recent years. Ciavarella was said to have received more than $ 2,600,000 of secret income from a series of deals with the developers of a privately run, for-profit juvenile detention center (Temple University of the Commonwealth, 2012). “The goal of juvenile court has always been rehabilitation, but it was a revolving door of punishment and incarceration under former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella” (Kalinowski, 2014, p.1), who was denying juveniles the right to an attorney and without proper trial or representation he was sending them away; away from their family, friends, school, and the life that they were trying to build as you adults. In so many ways he was ruining young lives. In an interview in the documentary Kids for Cash Ciavarella claimed that he was “only doing what he believed was in the best interest of the individuals”(Weekley, 2013), and that he was trying to give theses guidance and the rehabilitation that he thought they lacked. However the thing that Ciavarella did not address were what theses individuals were being put away for, such minor infractions that most people would never imagine would require time in a correctional
Ciavarella was the ringmaster behind one of the biggest prison scandals in recent years. Ciavarella was said to have received more than $ 2,600,000 of secret income from a series of deals with the developers of a privately run, for-profit juvenile detention center (Temple University of the Commonwealth, 2012). “The goal of juvenile court has always been rehabilitation, but it was a revolving door of punishment and incarceration under former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella” (Kalinowski, 2014, p.1), who was denying juveniles the right to an attorney and without proper trial or representation he was sending them away; away from their family, friends, school, and the life that they were trying to build as you adults. In so many ways he was ruining young lives. In an interview in the documentary Kids for Cash Ciavarella claimed that he was “only doing what he believed was in the best interest of the individuals”(Weekley, 2013), and that he was trying to give theses guidance and the rehabilitation that he thought they lacked. However the thing that Ciavarella did not address were what theses individuals were being put away for, such minor infractions that most people would never imagine would require time in a correctional