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Decriminalising Prostitution |
27 Aug 2008 |
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 Is decriminalising prostitution the way to make sex workers safe?
On 12th June 2008, Superintendent Alan Caton of Suffolk Police announced that there are no prostitutes on the streets of Ipswich anymore. Eighteen months earlier, five women working as prostitutes in the town had been found dead.
In our second report from Ipswich, we hear how, alongside drug rehabilitation, social workers, probation officers and the police have helped women trapped in prostitution and our reporter Liz Wallace goes on patrol with Suffolk Police.
So is this the way to get women off the streets and keep sex workers safe? Jenni is joined by Jean Johnson and Shirley Landels from Hampshire Women’s Institute, who are campaigning for the legalisation of brothels, and by Helen Atkins from the Poppy Project, which provides accommodation and support for women trafficked into prostitution.
The Poppy Project
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