Sacramento Adult Entertainment: Local Program Helping Prostitues Turn Lives Around
According to police, arresting prostitutes is like walking them through a revolving door. One night they are wearing handcuffs and the next night they are back out on the streets. “You already know about the jail overcrowding situation, so within 48 hours she’s set free,” said Sgt. Louis Felini with the Dallas Police Department. “Well, she returns back to the only environment she knows how to survive in.”
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Sgt. Dana Reynolds and Sgt. Jim Elves are police officers from Ottawa, Canada. They are in Dallas along with 200 other officers from across North America for the first Prostitute Diversion Initiative Conference. There, the officers will learn how Dallas police and sheriff’s deputies are fighting prostitution.
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“This is a place where women can come and find hope,” said former prostitute Karen Green. She is one of the many women who have been helped by the Dallas program. “A lot of women, when they come off the streets, they’re so entangled in what they were a part of, and they’re so angry and so hurt.”
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