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. [...]

RI: Full House OKs ban on indoor prostitution

11:29 AM EDT on Thursday, October 29, 2009
Lynn Arditi, Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill to outlaw indoor prostitution Wednesday night, paving the way for a final debate on the Senate floor Thursday.
The bill’s passage followed an hour of impassioned debate from both sides of the issue. [...]

For Runaways, Sex Buys Survival

Running in the Shadows
October 27, 2009
By IAN URBINA
ASHLAND, Ore. — She ran away from her group home in Medford, Ore., and spent weeks sleeping in parks and under bridges. Finally, Nicole Clark, 14 years old, grew so desperate that she accepted a young man’s offer of a place to stay. The price would come later.
They [...]

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 [...]

Internet fuels virtual subculture for sex trade, study finds

Published: Oct. 21, 2009 E-mail Editor
EAST LANSING, Mich. — The Internet has spawned a virtual subculture of “johns” who share information electronically about prostitution, potentially making them harder to catch, according to a new study co-authored by a Michigan State University criminologist.
The research by MSU’s Thomas Holt and Kristie Blevins of the University of North [...]

Chicago: Cook County Sheriff Loses Craigslist “Erotic Services” Ads Case

October 21st, 2009
Legal Analysis by Matt Zimmerman
Yesterday, a federal court tossed a lawsuit against craigslist over erotic advertisements. In March, Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart alleged that craigslist was liable for the illegal ads posted by its users in its “erotic services” (now “adult services”) category. As craigslist argued in their motion for judgment on [...]

Jessie Foster- Do you know her???

JESSIE
DO YOU
KNOW HER???
Call: Detective Dave Molnar of the North Las Vegas, NV USA police department at 702-633-1779
or: Constable Darin Rapell of the RCMP, Kamloops, BC Canada office at 250-828-3293
or: your own local 911, Police or Crime Stoppers with info to help us find Jessie,
she has been missing since she was 21 years old, over 3 [...]

MA: Man arraigned for murder of Everett woman

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
By Independent Staff
A 38-year-old Somerville man was arraigned in Malden District Court on Tuesday morning for the stabbing death of Sheila Santos.
The 26-year-old exotic dancer was allegedly stabbed 33 times by Antonio Marcos Ferreira, who dumped her body on the back stairs of the Everett apartment house she was living in at [...]

MA: Prosecutor: Blood ties ex-beau to stripper’s death

By Laurel J. Sweet
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 – Updated 4h ago
Prosecutors revealed today they found a spot of slain exotic dancer Sheila Dos Santos’ blood on a sneaker belonging to the spurned ex-boyfriend accused of slashing her to death on the doorstep of her Everett apartment building.
Dos Santos, 26, the stripper known as “Kelly” at [...]

Older Stories: Sex, Lies, and Craigslist

by Ginny Mies on June 29, 2006
After a few days of correspondence via email, Abigail* determined that it was safe to go out on a date with Phil, a businessman who described himself on his Craigslist ad as having “worldly tastes and gentlemanly manners,” as a man who was looking for a woman to spoil [...]