According to the Judicial Inquiry Commission, Hayes broke state and federal laws by jailing Johnson and hundreds of other Montgomery residents too poor to pay fines. In 2016, the state agency that oversees judges charged Hayes with violating Alabama’s code of judicial conduct. There were people who had committed real crimes who got out before me.” “That’s what they called me: The Woman with All the Days. “They had a nickname for me: The Woman with All the Days,” Johnson said. “Judge Hayes took away my life and didn’t care how my children suffered,” said Johnson, now 36. “My girls will never be the same.”įellow inmates found her sentence hard to believe. One daughter was molested, state records show. Johnson’s three children were cast into foster care while she was incarcerated. Marquita Johnson, who was locked up in April 2012, says the impact of her time in jail endures today. 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.
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