Shackled : a tale of wronged kids, rogue judges, and a town that looked away
(2024)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
TEEN/364.134/COOPER,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2024]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781662620133, 1662620136 :, 1662620136, 9781662620133
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Portal to calamity -- Just Greed -- Intolerance -- Four men and a building -- Kids for cash -- Kingdom of silence -- Divergence -- Villain or victim -- 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
"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"--
Grades 7-9
1140L