Kids for Cash | |
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Directed by | Robert May |
Produced by | Lauren Timmons Robert May Poppy Das |
Cinematography | Jay Gillespie Ed Marritz |
Edited by | Poppy Das |
Music by | Michael Brook |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $143,178[2] |
Kids for Cash is a 2013 documentary film about the "kids for cash" scandal which unfolded in 2008 over judicial kickbacks in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Two judges were found guilty of accepting kickbacks in exchange for sending thousands of juveniles to detention centers when probation or a lesser penalty would have been appropriate. Some juveniles were sent to detention centers for incidents as minor as theft of a CD from Walmart.