SCRANTON, Pa. (WBRE/WYOU) — President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of disgraced “Kids for Cash” Judge Michael Conahan, and one victim is expressing anger over it.
Conahan and fellow Judge Mark Ciavarella, both of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, were convicted in connection with a scheme that sent thousands of juveniles to two private detention centers in exchange for millions of dollars in kickbacks.
Nexstar’s WBRE spoke with Amanda Lorah, a victim of the Kids for Cash scheme. She called the clemency for Conahan simply wrong and an injustice.
“It’s a big slap in the face for us once again,” Lorah said after hearing that Biden had commuted the Conahan’s sentence.
“We had no time to get any time taken away from us. We had no one to talk to, but now we’re talking about the President of the United States to do this. What about all of us?” she asked.
Lorah was one of the thousands of juveniles wrongly imprisoned as part of the Kids for Cash scheme that involved Conahan and Ciavarella.
The judges received $2 million in kickbacks in exchange for sending juveniles to two private detention centers in which they had a business interest. The scandal gained national attention.
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