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Judge Michael Conahan's Pitch for a New Detention Center
Mark Chivarella has been serving as a judge in juvenile court for the past year and a half. Judge Michael Conahan suggested that they bypass the county to build a new for-profit detention center. The group then found a site for the detention center, and now they just need the financing to come through so they can begin construction. Once they finish construction, their builder is going to award him a finder's fee of nearly a million dollars.
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