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Sex workers rounded up in Arizona and pushed into church-based programs without charges
• RawstoryPolice in Arizona have been rounding up sex workers and bringing them in handcuffs to a Phoenix-area church to meet with investigators and choose between a diversion program or possible jail time.
Police and students from Arizona State’s School of Social Work have detained more than 350 people since 2011 in twice-a-year raids.
The sex workers are not officially “arrested,” police told Vice, but are “lawfully detained” in windowless church rooms without a lawyer present....