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Author Cooper, Candy J., 1955- author.

Title Shackled : a tale of wronged kids, rogue judges, and a town that looked away / Candy J. Cooper.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Calkins Creek, 2024.
1 hold on first copy returned of 1 copy
Location Call No. Status
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction-NEW  364.134 COO    DUE 05-29-24
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Description 160 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Portal to calamity -- Just Greed -- Intolerance -- Four men and a building -- Kids for cash -- Kingdom of silence -- Divergence -- Squeezed -- Standing up -- Cracks -- Cat and mouse -- Terrible, horrible, no good -- Rage and sorrow -- Deal or no deal -- Depths of indifference -- Frisbee, yoga, spin -- unimaginable brutality -- Harm reduction -- Branded.
Summary "Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told by Candy J. Cooper, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist"-- Provided by publisher.
Audience Grades 7-9 Calkins Creek
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Corrupt practices -- Pennsylvania.
Corruption -- Law and legislation -- Pennsylvania.
Bribery -- Law and legislation -- Pennsylvania.
Judicial error -- Pennsylvania.
Juvenile courts -- Pennsylvania.
Juvenile detention -- Pennsylvania.
ISBN 9781662620133 (hardcover)
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