Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. has been sentenced to almost three decades in jail after conspiring with private prisons to trade kids for cash. In the private prison industry, longer sentences earn more money from the state. Since 2003, Ciavarella received millions of dollars in br... Read more...
As one of his last acts as governor, the former prosecutor Ed Rendell commuted the life sentences of three men–one more than he had commuted during his entire eight years as governor. In their first interviews, the men talk about their lives in prison and outside. Read more...