Thanks to bad luck - and an even worse immigration judge - a Korean grandmother spends a year in jail. Chung Ho Chun's biggest mistake was getting a job. In 1995, she left Korea to come to Atlanta, where four of her siblings live. The idea was that they would support her while she took care of their ailing parents.

When she was told her problems would go away if she pleaded guilty, she did. In Fulton County State Court, she was fined $375 and given a six-month suspended sentence for prostitution and solicitation of sodomy. And her problems did go away - at least until a few years later, when she traveled to Korea to tend to her son, who needed brain surgery (and who would eventually die). Read Full Article.