Law Enforcement

Law enforcement groups, issues, and resources related to human trafficking.

Volunteering to Help Stop Sex Trafficking
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Volunteering to Help Stop Sex Trafficking

Do you have experience doing research, due diligence or do you just have a knack for finding things on the internet? Project 1591® was created to harness the power of volunteers with these types of Open-Source intelligence (OSINT) skills, people just like you! Together we can bring an end to domestic child sex trafficking. Why…

Why Growers Are Bracing Themselves for More H-2A Regulations
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Why Growers Are Bracing Themselves for More H-2A Regulations

The horticulture industry seeks broader access to H-2A and H-2B programs, but legislators are moving toward more rules and strict documentation. Craig Regelbrugge, Senior Vice President of AmericanHort, Shawn Packer of JPH Law Firm, and Tom Bortnyk of MAS Labor discussed industry challenges at a session titled “Labor Issues and Trends” in Columbus, OH. Regelbrugge…

Republic, KJZZ investigation examines how prison labor works in Arizona
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Republic, KJZZ investigation examines how prison labor works in Arizona

After 15 months of gathering and analyzing more than 11,000 documents and building a computer program that downloaded tens of thousands of public profiles about prisoners that the Arizona Department of Corrections refused to provide, reporters at The Arizona Republic and KJZZ News found that prison labor — during the past 10 years — has become ubiquitous…

Snoqualmie to use prison labor in WASHINGTON STATE public works department
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Snoqualmie to use prison labor in WASHINGTON STATE public works department

Unable to find seasonal public works employees this summer, the City of Snoqualmie has turned to correctional inmates — signing an agreement with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) that will pay inmates less than $2 an hour. While the city has no control over the pay-rate, city councilmembers, in a 6-1 vote, approved a…

2021 Federal Human Trafficking Report Key Takeaways
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2021 Federal Human Trafficking Report Key Takeaways

Every year the Human Trafficking Institute releases a report compiling data from every federal criminal case since The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. The purpose of the report is to provide a deep dive into the U.S. federal response to human trafficking to determine what is working and where improvements can be made.  … Read More »

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Rehabilitate prisoners? Actually, Arizona’s prison labor program is more like slavery
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Rehabilitate prisoners? Actually, Arizona’s prison labor program is more like slavery

Leasing human beings to profiteers is morally wrong. It’s no less so when the leasing is done by government and the human beings are prisoners. In fact, it is akin to slave labor. It raises serious questions about our public institutions and the people we entrust to guide them. That’s the central takeaway from a joint…

USA: Man charged with sex trafficking
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USA: Man charged with sex trafficking

This article is reprinted from its original location at Hope for Justice‘s website. It was pulled from their RSS feed for your education. Visit Hope for Justice’s news page by clicking here. A suspected human trafficker has been indicted and arrested following a joint investigation between Hope for Justice and a human trafficking task force….

Towns, cities, schools are all exploiting prison labor in Arizona
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Towns, cities, schools are all exploiting prison labor in Arizona

© Michael Chow/The Republic A corrections bus is parked in Willcox. At 50 cents an hour, governments across Arizona have come to rely on prisoners to carry out basic maintenance of everything from their public golf courses to libraries, schools and civic centers. Economists on both the right and left of the political spectrum don’t…

Prisoners are refurbishing their own cell doors. And the state’s making money from it
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Prisoners are refurbishing their own cell doors. And the state’s making money from it

An inmate stands at his cell door at the maximum security facility at the Arizona State Prison in Florence. In a Soviet-styled way to make money off taxpayer funds for its own benefit, the Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry has hired its own for-profit company to refurbish and reclaim its prison doors. And the workers making…

Missing woman found after being forced into prostitution
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Missing woman found after being forced into prostitution

This article is reprinted from its original location at Hope for Justice‘s website. It was pulled from their RSS feed for your education. Visit Hope for Justice’s news page by clicking here. A 22-year-old woman has been moved to safety after being forced into prostitution by a human trafficker who posed as her boyfriend. Richard…