Rethink Resources

I’m back with a whole month’s worth of news links.

Lots of news about arrests of five teens and two adults for sexually assaulting and pimping out teen girls in Fort Worth Texas.

A man was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison in Missouri for forcing teen girls into prostitution and to pay over a half million dollars in restitution.

Police uncovered and arrested a pimp making 4 teens have sex for money in Phoenix, Arizona.

The courts gave the maximum sentence to a 19 year old young woman who ran a escort service out of a Twin Cities suburban hotel and recruited minors to work for her.

Check out a great response to an editorial putting down the harm reduction efforts of Insite in Vancouver. A long time health worker points out that dead people can’t recover from addiction and harm reduction saves lives.

An effort in California is detailed here to stop the practice of giving life sentences for crimes committed when someone under 18 years old.

In Washington State, the state Supreme Court ruled in favor of keeping youth who runaway often in detention centers, despite youth advocates explaining this does not solve the real problem of why youth runaway.

A new study finds that newly homeless youth are more likely to have unsafer sex.

And lastly, Evansville Indiana is working on solutions to youth homelessness with 14 recommendations from the Homeless Youth Council with youth leadership.

Find more details on recent news articles here and previous news links here