Kentucky ? A Kentucky judge was suspended without pay for 15 days for jailing 17 Hispanic immigrants for traffic infractions and then denying them bail.

The state Judicial Conduct Commission on Thursday ordered Judge Sue Carol Browning, who oversees cases in two western Kentucky counties, off the bench from April 28 through May 12.

Some were held for as long as three weeks in August and September before another judge freed them. Circuit Judge Tyler Gill ruled in October that the men were “jailed without reason.”

The commission said Browning violated the canons of judicial conduct by instructing police officers to arrest immigrants without identification during traffic stops, then denying the men a right to bail.