Kids for Cash: Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2.8 Million Kickback Scheme

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Philadelphia Inquirer reporter William Ecenbarger comes the expose of a shocking scandal that ruined thousands of young lives–in paperback for the first time. As the Boston Globe wrote, The story is incredible: Thousands of children wrongfully sentenced to juvenile detention centers, many without legal representation and after cursory hearings, by two rogue judges in northern Pennsylvania who received millions of dollars in bribes from the private institutions’ owners. The story has all the elements of a true-crime legal thriller–mafia connections, colorful characters, corruption–and was made into a documentary of the same title, released in theaters in 2014.