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U(D54G1D)y+,!=!=!#!. KHAZER CAMP, Iraq — By the time the jihadists had finished, not even a woman’s eyes were legal. Showing them was a punishable offense. The dress code imposed on the women of Mosul started soon af- ter the Islamic State overran the city more than two years ago. It was carried out gradually, until every part of the female body was erased, starting with the face, then the rest of the body — includ- ing the hands, which had to be covered with gloves, as well as the feet, which had to be hidden by socks. It ended with an announce- ment blared over loudspeakers, telling women to wear a film of black cloth over their eyes. Halima Ali Beder, 39, said she had resentfully made each new addition to her wardrobe, starting with the niqab to cover her face, and the abaya, also known as a jil- bab, a loosefitting gown. Yet she still ran afoul of the Islamic State’s increasingly harsh enforcement of its codes when she stepped into the lane outside her home, plan- ning to pop over to her neighbor’s house. “I put on everything — the niqab, the abaya, the gloves, the socks. All I forgot to do is cover my eyes,” said Ms. Beder, one of a doz- en women from recently liberated neighborhoods of the city who re- counted their experiences in in- terviews at the Khazer refugee camp, about 45 miles from Mosul Under ISIS Dress Code, Even Women’s Eyes Were Soon Erased By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Islamic State militants blotted out the faces in a kindergarten mural in Mosul, Iraq, where a strict dress code was imposed. GORAN TOMASEVIC/REUTERS Continued on Page A8 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Christina Hagan, the youngest woman in the Ohio Legislature, received a surprise last week. The toughest piece of abortion legislation in the country — a bill she had champi- oned for years — suddenly passed. The measure, which would ban abortions after a heartbeat is de- tected, as early as six weeks, was long presumed dead. But now that Donald J. Trump is headed to the White House, the political winds have changed, and it passed with overwhelming majorities. So did a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks. Neither contains exceptions for rape and incest. Now Gov. John Kasich — a Repub- lican who is an ardent abortion op- ponent and onetime challenger to Mr. Trump — is weighing whether to sign one or both. “President-elect Trump has drastically shifted the dynamics,” said Ms. Hagan, 28, a Republican who has served in the State House since 2011. “I honestly could not have foreseen this victory a week or a month ago.” The effects of Mr. Trump’s vic- tory are only beginning to be felt. Emboldened by Trump’s Victory, Abortion Foes Vow ‘Onslaught’ By SABRINA TAVERNISE and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Continued on Page A12 During the tough financial times of 2011, Marcy Willis, a single mother who raised five children in Atlanta, used her credit card to rent a car for an acquaintance in exchange for cash. But the man — and the car — disappeared, she said. Four months later, when Ms. Willis finally recovered the car and returned it, she was charged with felony theft. As a first-time offender, Ms. Willis, 52, qualified for a big break: a program called pretrial intervention, also known as diver- sion. If she took 12 weeks of classes, per- formed 24 hours of community service and stayed out of trouble, her case would be dismissed and her arrest could be ex- punged, leaving her record clean. Diversion is not uncommon. Last year, Rebecca Horting, a 36-year-old nurse in Topeka, Kan., was offered a similar deal for an offense that caused far greater harm. She was charged with reckless bat- tery and texting while driving after she hit a girl on a bicycle, causing brain damage and the loss of a leg. Both women did what was required of them, yet their cases took different paths. The reason: money. Ms. Horting was able to pay $1,138 in fees and is on track to have her case dis- missed. Ms. Willis, who owed $690, had a harder time. When she paid all but $240, her case was sent back to court for prosecution. By that time, the arrest had already led to her losing her job, and then her apart- ment. At a homeless shelter, she was robbed. Accustomed to earning a living, she began to despair. “I felt like I was in a grave or a hole and instead of digging the dirt out, it was piling up,” Ms. Willis said. “I lost the respect of my kids, my family, and I was too embar- rassed to reach out to friends — so what do you do?” Though few people have heard of diver- sion, the practice is increasingly being embraced as a way for the criminal justice system to save people from itself. Diversion is intended to relieve over- burdened courts and crowded jails, and to spare low-risk offenders from the devas- tating consequences of a criminal record. It mostly applies to nonviolent cases that make up the vast majority of crimes — of- fenses like shoplifting, drug possession and theft. There are now diversion pro- grams in almost every state. But an examination by The New York Times found that in many places, only people with money could afford a second chance. Though diversion was introduced as a money-saving reform, some jurisdic- tions quickly turned it into a source of rev- enue. Prosecutors exert almost total control Marcy Willis, right, qualified for pretrial diversion, an alternative to prosecution. But she struggled with the costs. KEVIN D. LILES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Spared From a Criminal Record, As Long as You Can Pay Programs That Promise a Second Chance Still Elude Many Defendants By SHAILA DEWAN and ANDREW W. LEHREN Continued on Page A14 NO MONEY, NO MERCY When the Fix Breaks WASHINGTON — American spy and law enforcement agen- cies were united in the belief, in the weeks before the presidential election, that the Russian govern- ment had deployed computer hackers to sow chaos during the campaign. But they had conflict- ing views about the specific goals of the subterfuge. Last week, Central Intelligence Agency officials presented law- makers with a stunning new judg- ment that upended the debate: Russia, they said, had intervened with the primary aim of helping make Donald J. Trump president. The C.I.A.’s conclusion does not appear to be the product of spe- cific new intelligence obtained since the election, several Ameri- can officials, including some who had read the agency’s briefing, said on Sunday. Rather, it was an analysis of what many believe is overwhelming circumstantial evi- dence — evidence that others feel does not support firm judgments — that the Russians put a thumb on the scale for Mr. Trump, and got their desired outcome. It is unclear why the C.I.A. did not produce this formal assess- ment before the election, although several officials said that parts of it had been made available to President Obama in the presiden- tial daily briefing in the weeks be- fore the vote. But the conclusion that Moscow ran an operation to help install the next president is one of the most consequential analyses by American spy agen- cies in years. Mr. Trump’s response has been to dismiss the reports by citing an- other famous intelligence assess- ment — the botched 2002 conclu- sion that the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, had weapons of mass de- struction — and portraying Amer- ican spies as bumbling and bi- ased. “I think it’s ridiculous. I think it’s just another excuse. I don’t be- lieve it,” Mr. Trump said on Sun- day in an interview on Fox News. C.I.A. Judgment on Russia Built on Swell of Evidence Trump Rejects the Spy Agency’s Analysis, Among the Most Significant in Years By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC LICHTBLAU Continued on Page A11 Boeing announced a $16.6 bil- lion deal on Sunday to sell planes to Iran, which for decades had been economically blacklisted by the United States. The company instead chose to emphasize how many jobs the sale would support. “Today’s agreement will sup- port tens of thousands of U.S. jobs” associated with the produc- tion and delivery of the planes, Boeing said in its news release. The intended recipient of Boe- ing’s message clearly seemed to be President-elect Donald J. Trump. Its carefully worded statement is emblematic of the tightrope that America’s biggest exporters are walking amid his threats to shake up trade policy and undo the Obama administration’s nuclear accord with Iran. That agreement lifted the American sanctions on Iran, making Boeing’s jet deal possible. Mr. Trump has talked about im- posing tariffs on imports from China and on American compa- nies that move jobs to Mexico and other countries. But he has not said much about how some of America’s major manufacturing companies, like Boeing and Gen- eral Electric, and their workers could be hurt if other countries re- taliated for the tariffs or if existing trade agreements were ripped up. Boeing officials, already dis- mayed by Mr. Trump’s attack last week over the costs of a new Air Force One, acknowledged that the Iran jet deal still faced contingen- Boeing Seeks to Sell Airplanes To Iran, and the Deal to Trump By CHRISTOPHER DREW Continued on Page B3 CHINA DIPLOMACY Mr. Trump questioned the approach to the One China policy. PAGE A13 Middle-class Chinese are using new technology to move their money out of the country and into American invest- ments, like stocks and real estate, from San Francisco to New York. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-4 China’s Exodus of Wealth Boko Haram’s campaign of killing and looting is exacerbating a food shortage in eastern Niger as the violence drives tens of thousands of Nigerians over the border seeking safety. PAGE A4 Terrorism-Fueled Food Crisis An explosion during Sunday Mass killed at least 25, mostly women and children, in a chapel near Egypt’s main Coptic cathedral, days after another attack killed six police officers. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-9 Deadly Blast at Cairo Church An investigation into racial bias by prison guards in New York State aims to cover 54 prisons, 50,000 inmates and 20,000 corrections officers. PAGE A16 NEW YORK A16-19 Sprawling Inquiry Into Prisons Charles M. Blow PAGE A21 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21 A $2.5 billion Google data center in Pryor, Okla., is lifting the fortunes of the local school district, in a state where most schools are struggling. PAGE B1 When Google Comes to Town We live in a TV show that Donald J. Trump is starring in and live-tweeting, James Poniewozik writes. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 Trump’s TV Presidency TAJAN A work by Leonardo da Vinci is a heart-pounding find. Page C1. A Long-Lost Leonardo A New Hampshire farmhouse, financed in part by federal money, offers treat- ment for opioid users who are pregnant or newly postpartum. PAGE A10 NATIONAL A10-15 Helping Mothers Escape Drugs BRIEFINGS Donald J. Trump will be briefed on intelligence “when I need it,” not daily. PAGE A10 Eli Manning and the Giants came from behind in the third quarter to top Dallas for the second time this year. PAGE D1 SPORTSMONDAY D1-6 Giants Beat Cowboys, 10-7 Late Edition VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,444 + © 2016 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2016 Today, cloudy, periodic rain into the early afternoon, milder, high 48. To- night, clear to partly cloudy, low 34. Tomorrow, sun and some clouds, high 42. Weather map is on Page B5. $2.50
