Ex-Judge Gets 28 Years For $3M 'Kids For Cash' Scheme

By Kaitlin Ugolik (August 11, 2011, 7:03 PM EDT) -- Former Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison and about $1.2 million in restitution for his part in a $2.8 million bribery, kickback and extortion scheme to steer juvenile offenders from the public system to new private detention centers....

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