From the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER:
A state Senate measure that passed its first legislative hurdle this week could help thwart a repeat of the two upstate Pennsylvania judges accused of railroading hundreds of teens in a prison kickback scheme.
Under legislation sponsored by Sen. Lisa Baker (R., Luzerne), teens would be required to have lawyers in juvenile courts across the state, with counties providing attorneys for defendants who could not afford to pay…
Baker’s bill is the strongest legislative reform so far in response to the kids-for-cash scandal in Luzerne County that led to the arrest and removal from the bench of former Luzerne County Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. and his colleague Michael T. Conahan…
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