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PA Child Care youth-detention center in Pittston, Pa.
Monday, Mar. 30, 2009

Open quoteThe judge's whim is all that mattered in that courtroom. The law was basically irrelevant. Close quote

  • MARSHA LEVICK,
  • the legal director of the Juvenile Law Center, on two Pennsylvania judges who sent thousands of juveniles to detention centers for $2.6 million in kickbacks
Photo: Matt Rourke / AP | Source: NEW YORK TIMES