In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Conahan and Judge Mark Ciavarella shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from a ...

President Joe Biden’s decision to commute the prison sentence of Michael Conahan, a former Pennsylvania judge involved in the infamous "kids-for-cash" scandal, has drawn widespread condemnation ...

President Joe Biden this week granted clemency to the former Pennsylvania judge, Michael Conahan, as part of a mass commutation covering nearly 1,500 people who had been released on home ...

A judge who helped orchestrate one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S.history — a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks — was among the 1,500 people whose sentences ...

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2009, file photo, Michael Conahan, center, a former Pennsylvania judge involved in a scheme to send youths to a for-profit jail in exchange for kickbacks, leaves the ...

Corrupt ex-Pennsylvania judge Michael Conahan convicted of funneling juveniles to for-profit detention facilities for $2.1 million kickbacks had his lengthy prison sentence commuted by Biden.

Former Luzerne County Court Judges Michael Conahan, front left, and Mark Ciavarella, front right, leave the United States District Courthouse in Scranton, Pa., on Sept. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/The ...

WHO ARE HOMELESS. NEW TONIGHT OVER 1500 PEOPLE HAD SENTENCES COMMUTED BY PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN TODAY, AND THAT INCLUDES FORMER PENNSYLVANIA JUDGE MICHAEL CONAHAN. CONAHAN WAS SENTENCED TO MORE THAN ...

(WBRE/WYOU) — Former Luzerne County judge Michael Conahan, who was sentenced for his role in the infamous Kids-for-Cash scandal in September of 2011, had his sentence commuted Thursday by ...

In this Feb. 12, 2009, file photo, Michael Conahan, center, a former Pennsylvania judge involved in a scheme to send youths to a for-profit jail in exchange for kickbacks, leaves the federal ...

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2009, file photo, Michael Conahan, center, a former Pennsylvania judge involved in a scheme to send youths to a for-profit jail in exchange for kickbacks, leaves the ...