Foster Care Threatened for School Lunch Debt in Pennsylvania’s ‘Kids for Cash’ County

Second, Ciavarella’s earlier behavior was enough to get a challenge of the Juvenile Law Center (JLC) long before the feds came knocking with rackateering charge. The center became aware of his detention-heavy tendencies in 1999, when he detained a 13-year-old with mental health issues who appeared in his court without representation. JLC crossed paths with Ciavarella again in 2007, after he detained a teen named Hillary Transue for making a MySpace page mocking an assistance principal.