Luzerne County, Penn., site of the infamous “Kids-for-Cash” juvenile court scandal, just put out a whole slate of Requests for Proposal for youth services and juvenile probation.
A quick recap here for the uninitiated: the county’s head judge and head juvenile judge conspired to close a public juvenile detention center, steer county contracts to two private ones, and then made sure those centers stayed full of kids, even though some didn’t even break the law.
