In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal ...

Former Luzerne County Court Judges Michael Conahan, front left, and Mark Ciavarella, front right, leave the United States District Courthouse in Scranton, Pa., in 2009.

President Joe Biden this week granted clemency to the former Pennsylvania judge, Michael Conahan, as part of a mass commutation covering nearly 1,500 people who had been released on home ...

Michael Conahan, a former Luzerne County Court judge, leaves the federal courthouse in Scranton, Pa., in 2009. David Kidwell / AP file. Ciavarella ordered children as young as 8 to detention, many ...

Ex-Judge Michael Conahan, the jurist at the center of the so-called “Kids-for-Cash” scandal, was among 1,499 commutations Biden granted in the largest presidential act of clemency on a single day.

Former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan, the jurist at the center of the so-called “Kids-for-Cash” scandal, was among ...

In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Conahan and Judge Mark Ciavarella shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from a ...

F ormer Judge Michael Conahan, a judge at the helm of the infamous 'Kids for Cash' scandal, was among the nearly 1,500 individuals whose sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden as part of ...

Michael Conahan was sent home from the Federal Correctional Institution in Miami on a 30-day furlough that could lead to home confinement for the rest of his sentence. In this Sept. 23, 2011, file ...

Former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan arrives at the United States Courthouse in Scranton, Friday September 23, 2011, for sentencing. Conahan was sentenced to a term of 17 and 1/2 years on a ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Former Judge Michael Conahan, a judge at the helm of the infamous 'Kids for Cash' scandal, was among the nearly 1,500 individuals whose sentences were commuted by President ...

President Joe Biden's commutation of former Luzerne County judge Michael Conahan sentence in the "Kids for Cash" case outraged many. But, the whistleblower in the case has a different perspective.