In more than eight years on the bench, DeKalb County State Court Judge Janis C. Gordon had witnessed a troubling trend: men jailed for domestic violence would be released from custody just as likely to batter their spouses and partners as before.
Gordon would have had to accept the problem as one a judge can observe from her courtroom but not fix had she not found an unexpected $120,000. That money was left over from a $4 million settlement fund established by a payday lending company to settle class action claims.
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