Dog Days Turn Deadly in America’s Prisons

By James Ridgeway | Tue September 1, 2009 4:27 AM PST
The summer of 2009 hadn’t even begun when Marcia Powell, a 48-year old inmate at Arizona’s Perryville Prison, was baked to death. Powell, whom court records show had a history of schizophrenia, substance abuse, and mild mental retardation, was serving a 27-month sentence for prostitution. [...]

Press Release: More Than 50 Children Rescued During Operation Cross Country IV

For Immediate Release
October 26, 2009
Washington D.C., FBI National Press Office (202) 324-3691
Over the past 72 hours, the FBI, its local and state law enforcement partners, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) concluded Operation Cross Country IV, a three-day national enforcement action as part of the Innocence Lost National Initiative. The operation [...]

Does policing Craigslist actually threaten safety?

September 28, 2009 1:30 PM
Editors’ Note: Guest bloggers Andrea Ritchie and Jarad Ringer are two of New York City’s foremost experts on violence against sex workers. Ms. Ritchie is the Director of the Sex Workers Project at Urban Justice Center. Mr. Ringer is the Coordinator of the Hate Violence and Police Relations Program at the [...]

Polk County busts Craigslist prostitution ring

By JOSÉ PATIÑO GIRONA | The Tampa Tribune
and NATALIE SHEPHERD | News Channel 8
Published: September 14, 2009
Updated: 09/14/2009 10:21 pm
They came from Central and South Florida; authorities say they were trying to earn money in the world’s oldest profession.
One woman was dropped off by her 19-year-old daughter and her husband of 20 years. At least [...]

UK: Policewoman turned escort jailed

A Northumbria policewoman caught advertising herself on an escort website has been jailed for 15 months.
Former Pc Victoria Thorne, of Washington, Tyne and Wear, advertised herself under a pseudonym on a website called The Notorious Girls.
Newcastle Crown Court heard the 28-year-old, who earlier admitted misconduct, worked as a £100-an-hour prostitute for two years. [...]

TX: Busting brothels proves difficult

Despite residents’ complaints, Houston officers struggle to build cases and close illegal venues
By BRIAN ROGERS
Copyright 2009 Houston Chonicle
July 6, 2009, 11:11AM
Bart Jones remains frustrated that sexually oriented businesses, including illegal brothels, are open for business in his neighborhood after authorities closed a nearby strip club earlier this year.
“There’s too much crime associated with those businesses [...]

MS: Weiner denied phone records in prostitution case

Saturday, Jul. 04, 2009
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OXFORD — Dr. Roger Weiner, a Coahoma County supervisor accused of soliciting prostitutes on SugarDaddyforMe.com, has been denied access to records from a cellular telephone apparently used by an undercover agent involved in a sting operation that led to his arrest.
U.S. Magistrate David A. Sanders on Thursday granted a motion [...]

OH: Seven arrested in prostitution sting

By Everdeen Mason, Staff writer
Updated 7:47 PM Thursday, July 2, 2009
HAMILTON — Hamilton police arrested seven people Wednesday, July 1, in an undercover prostitution sting operation in the city’s 4th Ward.
Eleven officers, six undercover posing as both customers and a prostitute, participated in the nine-hour operation in response to neighborhood complaints, said Officer Dave [...]

WA: Pierce County judge’s trial delayed until September

Friday, July 3, 2009 7:42 AM PDT
By Adam Lynn
The News Tribune
Pierce County Superior Court Judge Michael Hecht on Friday received a three-month postponement of his trial on charges he hired a prostitute and threatened to kill a man.
Hecht, charged with one count of felony harassment and one misdemeanor count of patronizing a prostitute, had been [...]

PA: Police: Ex-Nova Dean Customer of Prostitution Ring

By TAMARA VOSTOK
Updated 3:30 PM EDT, Fri, Jul 3, 2009
Police investigating a prostitution ring in Chester County relied on two customers for information, one of whom was Mark A. Sargent—dean of Villanova University School of Law, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Police raided the Kennett Township home on November 25, 2008 after a six-week surveillance [...]