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Kids for Cash Documentary

There is a video on YouTube about how kids are treated with the "zero tolerance policy for juveniles" in the legal system and in schools. It goes in to detail about how kids are treated when they commit crimes when they go to court, how they are not represented by lawyers in juvenile court and how they come out with a learning level of fourth grade. It talks about 2 judges in Pennsylvania who accepted money to put kids behind bars. It talks about how the courts re-evaluate them and keep them on a probation list and at any time return them to juvenile centers for minor things until they are 21. The producer of the video talks about how he came about making the documentary and his findings.  It is really is an eye opener. I believe in punishment for crimes but after listening and watching this video i have a very different perspective of how kids are treated by the court system.
KIDS FOR CASH Documentary with Filmmaker Robert May
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVzSe2TQ3d0

KIDS FOR CASH documents the Pennsylvania scandal of selling children into the prison system at the hands of corrupt Judge Mark Arthur Ciavarella, Jr. How Ciavarella got embedded with the privatized prison system, how children were profited off of, and the plight of the imprisoned minors is shared with clips, the trailer, and in depth discussion with director Robert May in this uncensored Media Mayhem interview.
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GUEST BIO:
Director/Producer/Founder, SenArt Films; Robert May executive produced STEVIE and Oscar® winning FOG OF WAR: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, and produced THE STATION AGENT, THE WAR TAPES and BONNEVILLE.
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This is another video on YouTube--personal experience in the Court in PA where the judges were paid off to put kids the juvenile  building where they were getting money kick-backs from the owner.

Kids For Cash: Inside One of the Nation's Most Shocking Juvenile Justice Scandals (Part 1 of 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvXUzpYRfVU





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