Judge Les Hayes once sentenced a single mother to 496 days behind bars for failing to pay traffic tickets. The sentence was so stiff it exceeded the jail time Alabama allows for negligent homicide reut.rs/2ZkVOjb 1/7
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- Replying to @specialreportsMarquita Johnson’s three children were cast into foster care while she was incarcerated. One daughter was molested, another was physically abused 2/7
- Replying to @specialreportsIn 2016, the state agency that oversees judges charged Hayes with violating Alabama’s code of judicial conduct. Hayes broke state and federal laws by jailing Johnson and hundreds of other Montgomery residents too poor to pay fines reut.rs/3i2VvC1 4/7
- Replying to @specialreportsFellow inmates found her sentence hard to believe. 'They had a nickname for me: The Woman with All the Days,’ Johnson said 3/7
- Replying to @specialreportsHayes is just one example. Thousands of judges across the U.S. have been allowed to keep positions of extraordinary power and prestige after violating the law. Read the full investigation: reut.rs/2ZkVOjb via @johnshiffman @MJBerens1 7/7
- Replying to @specialreportsEven after Hayes admitted to violating 10 different parts of the state’s judicial conduct code he wasn’t fired. Instead, the judicial commission and Hayes reached a deal: An 11-month unpaid suspension before returning to the bench 5/7
- Replying to @specialreportsThis week, Hayes is set to retire after 20 years. His departure, community activists say, is long overdue 6/7
- China has now assembled its largest-ever military force in Hong Kong, foreign envoys tell @Reuters. Among them: members of the People’s Armed Police, a paramilitary force that answers to Xi Jinping. Read full @specialreports: reut.rs/2mg1LOR
- Months after a cognitively impaired New Jersey man died while trying to meet up with a flirty Meta AI chatbot, ‘Big sis Billie’ was still romancing users, tests by Reuters show reut.rs/45DQIRj @JeffHorwitz
- Entire families were among the dead in an attack on Syrian Alawites. In one neighborhood, 45 women were among the 253 dead. In another village, 10 of 30 killed were children. An entire town was emptied, its hundreds of Alawite residents replaced by Sunnis reut.rs/44rr1Tc
- The Lais’ wrenching decision to uproot their family, which @Reuters has documented for the past five months, provides a glimpse of the deep societal wounds that mass emigration could inflict on Hong Kong reut.rs/3aznBn4 1/10
- As the Conservative Party chooses its next leader and the UK’s next prime minister, @specialreports reveals the private views of an influential figure over British politics: former Russian tycoon Alexander Temerko. Read the full report: reut.rs/2XZB8KP
- 1/ To understand Hong Kong's recent struggles, it's important to understand Carrie Lam's origins and rise to power. @a_roantree and @jamespomfret tell her story 👇 reut.rs/3o7cfuk
GIF - More than 30 years ago, Michael Oppenheimer and James Hansen went before Congress with a warning: Humankind was warming the planet through the burning of fossil fuels. Though their prediction has come to pass, governments have been slow to act reut.rs/3dwPy00
