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SJN Newsletter #5: Does legalizing or decriminalizing sex work open the door for increased illegal sex activity? Alison Phillips and her business partner Dan Nash operate the Human Trafficking Training Center (HTTC) in Kansas City, Missouri. Their mission is to provide skill-based training for law enforcement officers in not only how to identify human trafficking…

Sex Work: Will Legalization or Decriminalization Make a Difference? In each issue of this newsletter, I will profile a sex worker, advocate or expert and featuretheir beliefs and thoughts about whether or not sex work should be decriminalized.Briefly, legalization would allow the governing municipality to regulate sex work, forexample, dictating where it can be done…

Sex Work: Should sex workers be incarcerated? Much of the nonprofit organization’s focus is on helping women who find themselvesserving longer-term prison sentences. This happens to women in Florida, for example,because their third arrest is considered a felony and comes with a mandatory one-yearsentence. That imprisonment can be extended if there were any adjacent charges…

Christopher Johnston
PUB: Leaps.org
February 18, 2022

Scientists are studying cancer genomes to more precisely diagnose their patients’ diseases – offering hope for targeted drug treatments.

Christopher Johnston
PUB: The Land
December 21, 2021

Neighborhood Family Practice earned one of the Ohio Commission on Hispanic Latino Affairs’ Nuestra Familia Awards “for winning the trust of Latino families and building relationships that lead to better health outcomes” last month, crowning the local healthcare company’s consistent efforts to serve Cleveland’s marginalized communities.

Christopher Johnston
PUB: The Land
February 22, 2022

In late January, Cleveland City Council unanimously approved restrictions on where new small-box retail stores can be located. To slow the proliferation of dollar stores, the recent legislation prohibits them from being built or opened within two miles of an existing discount store. 

Christopher Johnston
PUB: The Land
October 12, 2020

Since 2018, the Salvation Army of Greater Cleveland has run a facility downtown dedicated to helping human trafficking victims. Yet now, although the residence remains full and there is an increase in demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the unit is fighting to remain open for the long-term.

Christopher Johnston
PUB: Ohio Center for Investigative Journalism

For one Ohio trafficking victim, the opening of the accredited rape crisis center at the YWCA Dayton last year proved crucial to quelling her inner demons, which lingered long after the physical pain subsided.

Christopher Johnston
PUB: Christian Science Monitor

By welcoming and engaging its citizens from all corners through literature, the city is spawning discussions that could help it tackle tough social issues from homelessness to substance abuse. At a long conference table on the east side of Cleveland, Daniel Gray-Kontar listens closely as one of his students, a high school senior, starts to read her latest poem.