Here's an Accurate Review of this Documentary

I think this is the most accurate review I can find of this documentary:

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/movies/25852582-421/kids-for-cas h-odd-choices-obscure-an-outrageous-injustice.html#.U-0qP0iSfow

I especially appreciate the sentence "William Ecenbarger’s 2012 book 'Kids for Cash: Two Judges, Thousands of Children, and a $2.8 Million Kickback Scheme' imparts more tawdry detail than (director Robert) May, who opts for tears on camera."

No documentary can hope to capture all the "tawdry detail" of a story within a limited running time, but May really did waste quite a bit of time making sure that we were sufficiently upset at the various outrages. He could have accomplished all that while still exploring issues like the privatization of prisons in general or at least the conditions at this specific facility (beyond anecdotes about cockroaches). Even on a simple storytelling level, he should have at least mentioned what happened to others involved in the scheme, such as Robert Powell, Robert Mericle, or even Sandra Brulo (the woman who testified at the 52 minute mark in a rather offputting manner). Once I did a wikipedia search and a news search (as some aspects of the story are still ongoing), it made me realize just how much was unnecessarily left out in favor of showing the talk-radio guy or all the other repeated expressions of predictable outrage at the local diner.