Shackled
A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town That Looked Away
New York : Calkins Creek, 2024.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: pages cm
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Portal to calamity -- Just Greed -- Intolerance -- Four men and a building -- Kids for cash -- Kingdom of silence -- Divergence -- Squeezed -- Standing up -- Cracks -- Cat and mouse -- Terrible, horrible, no good -- Rage and sorrow -- Deal or no deal -- Depths of indifference -- Frisbee, yoga, spin -- unimaginable brutality -- Harm reduction -- Branded.
Subjects:
Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Corrupt practices -- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile literature.
Corruption -- Law and legislation -- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile literature.
Bribery -- Law and legislation -- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile literature.
Judicial error -- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile literature.
Juvenile courts -- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile literature.
Juvenile detention -- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile literature.
Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Corrupt practices -- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile literature.
Corruption -- Law and legislation -- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile literature.
Bribery -- Law and legislation -- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile literature.
Judicial error -- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile literature.
Juvenile courts -- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile literature.
Juvenile detention -- Pennsylvania -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: Grades 7-9
ISBN:
9781662620133
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
T SOCIAL SCI Coo | Sandhills Indoors | Teen Nonfiction | Out (Due: 6/13/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references.