Tag: sex work
States Move to Decrim Sex Work, But Add On “Human Trafficking” Penalties
Several states are currently considering proposals that would make them the first to fully ...
Inside Rhode Island’s Pioneering Overdose Prevention Center
In January, the United States’ first state-sanctioned overdose prevention center (OPC) began operations in ...
Georgia Probation Is an Alternative to Something, But Not Jail
[Part 1 and Part 2 of this series were published in October] Just about ...
“Ethical Porn” Probably Doesn’t Mean the Porn We’re Producing in Prison
P, serving life in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody, looks at the men ...
Sex Workers Are “Trafficking Victims” Until Cops Don’t Want Them to Be
I started sex work in my early teens. Older boys in the foster care ...
What Options Does the Sex Offender Registry Leave Us, If Not Sex Work?
They say that time is money, but if that’s true then mine doesn’t seem ...
HIV Rights Advance for Cops, Ahead of the Sex Workers They Criminalize
On March 23, the city of Nashville settled a federal discrimination lawsuit over barring ...
Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Policies and the Continuum of Consent
Circumstantial sex workers often do sex work for a period of time to get ...
The Right to Consensual Sex—and Condoms—in Prison
Greg* has been incarcerated in Tennessee for about 18 months. He’s been on a ...
Tennessee’s HIV Sex Offender Law Discourages Testing, Not Transmission
In the mid-’90s at Washington State Penitentiary, a corrections officer (CO) and I had ...
