A few of the details:
- Two former Luzerne County judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, pleaded guilty in February to fraud charges. Prosecutors said they took $2.6 million in bribes to put juveniles in private detention centers
- "I have never, not only in this state, never in the United States, seen a bribery case of this magnitude, and the effect that it's had on the children's lives is astounding," said state Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald Castille, who called it "probably the worst tragedy I've seen in the history of the United States."
- Castille said a Supreme Court-appointed special master is reviewing the matter, and it's possible that 5,000 to 6,000 juvenile cases handled by the judges could be expunged. The master yesterday issued an order preserving the records of all juveniles whose cases went before Ciavarella between January 2003 and May 2008.
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