Mark Ciavarella
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FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2009 file photo, former judge Mark Ciavarella, center, leaves the federal courthouse in Scranton, Pa. Ciavarella is serving a 28-year sentence and fellow ex-judge Michael Conahan 17 years for taking $2.6 million from companies looking to build and fill a youth detention center for Luzerne County. Ciavarella's daughter and one of the teens he sent away have formed an unlikely friendship and are now pondering ways to help troubled youth. (AP Photo/David Kidwell, File)
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In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, Lauren Ciavarella Stahl poses for a photograph in Plymouth, Pa. Stahl is daughter of disgraced judge Mark Ciavarella who is serving a 28-year prison term for taking secret "finder's fees" from juvenile center officials in northeast Pennsylvania. Stahl recently met with Hillary Transue who was sent to juvenile detention at age 15 by Ciavarella. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2009 file photo, Hillary Transue, who was sentenced to a wilderness camp for building a spoof MySpace page that lampooned her assistant principal, poses for a photograph in White Haven, Pa. Transue says she did not have an attorney, nor was she informed of her right to one, when she was sentenced by Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella. The film "Kids for Cash" set to open explores the scandal that entangled thousands of children in Pennsylvania's juvenile court system and sent two former judges to prison. Ciavarella is serving a 28-year sentence and fellow ex-judge Michael Conahan 17 years for taking $2.6 million from companies looking to build and fill a youth detention center for Luzerne County. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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FILE - This Feb. 6, 2009 file photo shows the privately owned PA Child Care youth detention center in Pittston, Pa. Prosecutors allege that Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella and a second jurist, Michael Conahan, took millions in kickbacks in return for guaranteeing the placement of juvenile offenders into youth lockups run by PA Child Care LLC and a sister company, Western PA Child Care LLC. The film "Kids for Cash" set to open explores the scandal that entangled thousands of children in Pennsylvania's juvenile court system and sent two former judges to prison. Ciavarella is serving a 28-year sentence and fellow ex-judge Conahan 17 years for taking $2.6 million from companies looking to build and fill a youth detention center for Luzerne County. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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In this undated still image from the film "Kids for Cash" provided by SenArt Films, former judge Mark Ciavarella is shown. The film, set to open Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 in Philadelphia before opening in theaters nationwide, explores the scandal that entangled thousands of children in Pennsylvania's juvenile court system and sent two former judges to prison. Ciavarella is serving a 28-year sentence and fellow ex-judge Michael Conahan 17 years for taking $2.6 million from companies looking to build and fill a youth detention center for Luzerne County. (AP Photo/SenArt Films)
