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New Orleans: Sex Workers Now Being Charged as "sex offenders"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Her Crime? Sex Work in New Orleans By Jordan Flaherty ColorLines magazine With police charging sex workers as sex offenders?the majority of them Black women?activists hope the city?s mayoral elections next month will pave the way for fighting the law. January 13, 2010 Tabitha has been working as a prostitute in New Orleans since she was 13. Now 30 years old, she can often be found working on a corner just outside of the French Quarter. A small and slight white woman, she has battled both drug addiction and illness and struggles every day to find a meal or a place to stay for the night. These days, Tabitha, who asked that her real name not be used in this story, has yet another burden: a stamp printed on her driver?s license labels her a sex offender...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 20, 2010 (boomark / email).