Oprah's new network does it again with another documentary i can't wait to get my hands on. Prostitution: Leaving the Life is about the lives of women who have been arrested for prostitution and their struggle to leave that life with. So intense!
This is something I'm super interested in, considering the work that I've been doing lately analyzing prostitution arrest data in the Bronx lately. Prostitution arrests are up and more women (since they are mostly women) are coming through the criminal justice system, but over 30 percent of those have been arrested more than once-- some of them many, many more times. How can we really help them leave the life? That's the million dollar question. But the billion dollar question is-- how do we get rid of the demand?
