Judge Convicted in Pennsylvania Kids-for-Cash Scheme A federal jury has found a former Pennsylvania judge guilty of participating in a so-called "kids-for-cash" scheme, in which he received money in exchange for sending sometimes innocent juveniles  to for-profit youth jails over the years. Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella, Jr. was convicted Friday of accepting bribes and kickbacks for putting juveniles into privately owned for profit detention centers (prisons) operated by PA Child Care and a sister company, Western Pennsylvania Child Care. Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, are said to have received $2.6 million dollars for their efforts. Ciavarella faces a maximum sentence of 157 years in prison, in addition to a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the youths’ families. For more on this story, we are joined by Marsha Levick of the Juvenile Law Center and to Sandy Fonzo, who's son committed suicide after Ciavarella falsely imprisoned him twice!