Three days after PA Child Care opened its doors, Luzerne County Common Pleas Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. sent a letter to juvenile delinquency court staff notifying them he was suspending use of graduated sanctions and implementing a strict “zero tolerance” policy.

The decision, the county’s former chief of the juvenile probation department told the Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice, required youths violating probation to be detained.

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