Conahan, the former Luzerne County judge, and fellow jurist Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., gained notoriety for wrongfully imprisoning juveniles, funneling defendants to two private, for-profit detention ...

Conahan, now 72, was convicted in 2011 alongside fellow former judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., 74. Both men orchestrated a scheme to funnel juvenile defendants to privately operated, for-profit ...

Michael Conahan, the disgraced former Luzerne County judge convicted in the "Kids for Cash" scandal, had his sentence commuted by President Joe Biden, the White House announced on Thursday, Dec. 12.