This decision has raised broader concerns about the messaging of clemency. While the administration aims to address systemic issues, critics warn that leniency for individuals like Conahan risks ...

Biden's decision to commute the 17-year prison sentence of Michael Conahan angered many in northeastern Pennsylvania, from ...

There is outrage and lots of questions coming from the victims of the Kids for Cash scheme in the aftermath of United States ...

It stole his youth, his childhood,” said Sandy Fonzo, whose son was sentenced by former Judge Michael Conahan.

Former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan, the jurist at the center of the so-called “Kids-for-Cash” scandal, was among 1,499 commutations the 82-year-old lame-duck president granted in the ...

President Joe Bidens latest clemency decisions have ignited bipartisan criticism, particularly over the commutation of ...

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2009, file photo, Michael Conahan ... In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Conahan and Judge Mark Ciavarella shut down a county-run juvenile detention ...

Michael Conahan was jailed in 2011 for detaining thousands of children in juvenile detention centers in exchange for kickbacks.

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Former Judge Michael Conahan, a judge at the helm of the infamous 'Kids for Cash' scandal, was among the nearly 1,500 individuals whose sentences were commuted by President ...

Michael Conahan, 72, was sentenced to more than ... guilty in 2010 to racketeering for his role in the so-called kids-for-cash scandal. He and a co-conspirator, former judge Mark Ciavarella ...

President Biden commuted the sentence of former Luzerne County judge Michael Conahan, who was convicted in the "kids for cash" scandal. Conahan accepted bribes in exchange for sending children to ...