Kids for Cash (2013)

Directed by

Robert May

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 63 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary recounts a scandal in Pennsylvania where two judges secretly took money from private prison companies. They then gave harsh detention sentences to thousands of teenagers for minor offenses like shoplifting. The film shows how the justice system punished kids for profit.

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What happens

Kids for Cash is a 2013 documentary film about the "kids for cash" scandal which unfolded in 2008 over judicial kickbacks in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Two judges were found guilty of accepting kickbacks in exchange for sending thousands of juveniles to detention centers when probation or a lesser penalty would have been appropriate. Some juveniles were sent to detention centers for incidents as minor as theft of a CD from Walmart. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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