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3 Months in Juvie For a MySpace Joke? How the For-Profit Prison Industry Locks Up More People Each Year July 6, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Seventeen-year-old Hillary Transue did what lots of 17-year-olds do: Got into mischief. What she expected was perhaps a stern lecture. It wasn't until two years later that she found out why. PA Child Care is a juvenile detention center in Pittston Township, Pennsylvania. In July 2009, Powell pled guilty to failing to report a felony and being an accessory to tax evasion conspiracy in connection with $770,000 in kickbacks he paid to Ciavarella and Conahan in exchange for facilitating the development of his facilities. The childcare facilities have also been criticized for their costs, which ranged as high as $315 per child per day. The juvenile detention center Hillary was sent to was a private, for-profit facility run by one of the more than 50 companies operating in the five billion dollar private prison industry.