Families File Suit Against Judges Over Kick-Backs
The parents of more than 70 youths jailed by two Pennsylvania judges filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing the judges of denying the juveniles their right to a fair and impartial trial. In the lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, plaintiffs claim that the two judges placed the youthful offenders in juvenile detention centers in return for financial gain. The two judges pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges of taking $2.6 million in kick-backs from private juvenile detention centers.


