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Two California residents were arrested and booked into the Baldwin County Jail on charges of human trafficking. Benjamin M. Sapp, 20, and Breanna Chanthanam, 20, both of Sacramento, California, were both arrested on Wednesday and each charged with human trafficking related to alleged profiting of an 18-year-old victim. According to the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Department,…
CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) — The Clovis Police department arrested six men over the weekend who they say were attempting to lure girls into human trafficking. The operation was part of an ongoing undercover operation at a Clovis hotel. The six men thought they were coming to the hotel to meet a girl they were targeting…
Louisiana correction authorities routinely confine thousands of inmates beyond their release dates each year, in violation of the Constitution and wasting taxpayer funds, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday. Overdetention is not unheard of in other states, nor in federal facilities, but the scale of Louisiana’s actions — which the Justice Department attributed to state…
According to Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen law enforcement is changing their perspective towards a major crime. “I think a lot of law enforcement for decades have not really understood what human trafficking is. We treated it like prostitution. We treated it like a victimless crime, two consenting parties, and that is just not the…
Atlanta Community Press Collective Twitter Manuel Esteban Paez Teran Manuel Esteban Teran was an activist who was shot and killed by authorities in South River Forest on January 18, 2023, after being accused of shooting a Georgia state trooper at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. “The man who died in…
Kentucky resisted the end of slavery, refusing to certify the 13th Amendment at the time and only freeing people six months after June 19, 1865, the day celebrated as the Juneteenth holiday. Legislators finally ratified the amendment in 1976. And to this day, the state Constitution endorses slavery for one group of citizens: inmates. Reads…
Originally published by The 19th During the midterm elections, five states — Alabama, Oregon, Vermont, Louisiana, and Tennessee — put to vote initiatives purported to prohibit the use of slavery and indentured servitude as a punishment for crime, an antiquated allowance given by the 13th Amendment 157 years ago this month that prisons across the country still…
The Washington police department that handled a murder case involving a father accused of stabbing his daughter’s 19-year-old boyfriend to death for allegedly selling her into a sex trafficking ring in the Seattle area issued a new warning Wednesday on the “fastest growing criminal industry in the world today.” The Spokane Police Department posted to…
We Need Your Support to End Slavery on November 29th Giving Tuesday Dear dedicated anti-slavery activists, tomorrow, November 29th is Giving Tuesday and we need your help. This is our once-a-year solicitation of our 1500 blog subscribers and other anti-trafficking advocates to contribute to the statewide work of the Iowa NAHT. This year on this…
In the days when the COVID-19 virus was new, less understood and more deadly, officials in Louisiana turned to state prison inmates to produce essential but scarce products to slow the rapid spread of the virus. There were occupational hazards and health concerns for the imprisoned people mixing chemicals to create hard-to-find hand sanitizer. For…
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