Title:
Shackled : a tale of wronged kids, rogue judges, and a town that looked away / Candy J. Cooper.
ISBN:
9781662620133
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Calkins Creek, 2024.
Physical Description:
192 pages : illustrations ; 24 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:
1140L Lexile
OCLC Number:
on1401625729
Availability:
Hastings - Pleasant Hill~1
