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From the New York Times:Clean Slates for Youths Sentenced FraudulentlyThe Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on Thursday ordered the slate cleaned for hundreds of youths who had been sentenced by a corrupt judge.The young people had been sent to privately run detention centers from 2003 to 2008 as part of a judicial kickback scheme that shocked Pennsylvania and the nation. The judge in the cases, Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. of Luzerne County, is one of two who pleaded guilty last month to wire fraud and conspiracy for taking more than $2.6 million in kickbacks.The exact number of records to be expunged was not stated in the court?s order (pdf file); a special master is investigating the cases...

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on March 29, 2009 (boomark / email).

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