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Sex Workers Outreach Project: articles in the Washington Post and Newsweek on Protests in DC

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Sex Workers Criticize Law Enforcement By Theola Labbé-DeBose Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 18, 2008; B03 Dozens of sex workers marched through the streets of downtown Washington yesterday, demanding better treatment from law enforcement officials of prostitutes who become crime victims. Clutching red umbrellas and carrying signs that read, "Sex Work Is Real Work" and "Stop Shaming Us to Death," the men and women came from San Francisco, New York and other cities across the country to publicize a rarely discussed issue that they say is not taken seriously. The rally and march was organized by the Sex Workers Outreach Project, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, and coincided with today's fifth anniversary of the sentencing of Gary Leon Ridgway, a Seattle man known as the "Green River Killer" who was convicted of murdering 48 prostitutes in 21 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 13, 2009 (boomark / email).