AZ: Female inmate dies after left in outdoor holding cell

10:10 AM Mountain Standard Time on Thursday, May 21, 2009
By Jennifer Thomas / azfamily.com
PHOENIX — A female inmate at the Perryville state prison died after spending four hours in an outdoor holding cell, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections.
While waiting to be moved to a detention unit, Marcia Powell, 48, was placed in [...]

Vancouver: ‘Our women are not for sale’

http://www.vancouversun.com
VANCOUVER SUN
MAY 30, 2009
DAPHNE BRAMHAM
Relentless advocate is one of many voices calling for end to prostitution
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Trisha Baptie, a former sex worker, is fighting to bring an end to prostitution and sex slavery.
Photograph by: Bill Keay, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Sun
Trisha Baptie’s life story reads like the template of many who end up in Vancouver’s sex [...]

Group aims to overturn laws on prostitution

http://vancouver.24hrs.ca
24 HOURS VANCOUVER
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Irwin Loy
A group that wants to challenge the constitutionality of prostitution laws is hoping a hand from legal groups will bolster its argument.
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association, the Trial Lawyers Association of B.C. and West Coast LEAF, a legal group advocating for women’s equality, have all been granted the right [...]

The Craigslist Sex Panic

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How shutting down its “erotic services” section hurts prostitutes and cops.
By Melissa Gira Grant
Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009, at 4:59 PM ET
Craigslist, the San Francisco-based online marketplace that’s been around for nearly as long as the Web, has always hosted ads for prostitution. That supposedly changed earlier this month when the site closed its [...]

TX: Young prostitute slain by client

Body found behind Austin grocery store last week
Updated: Wednesday, 27 May 2009, 2:51 PM CDT
Published : Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 10:24 AM CDT
KXAN Staff
AUSTIN (KXAN) – A body found in the woods off William Cannon Drive last week was apparently a victim of homicide, police said Tuesday.
The woman has been identified as Amy Elizabeth [...]

Australia: Sex workers win apology from Salvation Army after threatening protest on Red Shield Appeal

Friday, 22 May 2009 6:20 PM
LiveNews | Tim Brunero
The Salvation Army has issued a public apology after a sex worker lobby group labelled one of the charity’s newspaper ads “discriminative”.
The Scarlet Alliance, which represents the interests of sex workers nationwide, took exception to an ad in today’s Daily Telegraph and threatened to issue a ‘red [...]

Judge blocks SC AG from charges against Craigslist

Meg Kinnard, Associated Press
May 22
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked South Carolina’s attorney general from making any move to prosecute Craigslist executives for ads that lead to prostitution arrests while the company pursues its lawsuit against the state.
The order from U.S. District Judge Weston Houck stems [...]

FL: Woman arrested after offering free sex — but a charge for companionship

Anthony Colarossi | Sentinel Staff Writer
11:32 AM EDT, May 19, 2009
LEESBURG – A suspected prostitute shared her unusual work rationale with an undercover Leesburg police officer just before she was arrested for the second time within 24 hours late last week.
“I don’t take money for sex,” Ashley H, 26, of Leesburg, told the officer. “I [...]

Paying With Our Sins

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By NICK GILLESPIE
Published: May 16, 2009
Washington
THE Obama administration’s drug czar made news last week by saying he wanted to end all loose talk about a “war on drugs.” “We’re not at war with people in this country,” said the czar, Gil Kerlikowske, who favors forcing people into [...]

Craigslist to crack down on erotic service ads

Attorneys general applaud the move, but some are skeptical. And experts say it won’t have an effect on the wider problem of prostitution.
David Sarno
May 14, 2009
Bowing to public pressure from a nationwide cadre of law enforcement officials, Craigslist said Wednesday that it would shutter the “erotic services” section of its website and pledged to closely [...]