"Report: Hundreds forced into labor, sex in Ohio"

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• samsung1

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  15 years ago

  Toledo is the 4th ranked city for illegal sex trade behind Miami, Las Vegas, and Portland. I think it might have something to do with it being a big city, 55 miles from Windsor where escorting is legal via a loophole. I also know the mafia used to run Youngstown but I am not an expert so I am just guessing.
• samsung1

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  15 years ago

  I just did a quick google search and found this abstract:
  "This paper will examine representations of crime in Youngstown, Ohio as a springboard for analyzing neoliberal economic and social policies which established the prison as a tool of population management. During the heyday of the steel industry in the 1950s and 60s, mobsters from Pittsburgh and Cleveland fought for control of the city. Their power struggles often turned violent and Youngstown earned the reputation as “Crimetown” or “Bombtown, U.S.A.” In the late 1980s and 90s, Youngstown experienced another wave of violent crime perpetrated by street level offenders who came of age in the wake of the mill closings of the 1970s and early 80s. In the 1990s, a number of prison developments testified to the limited options open to Youngstowners. _x000d_This paper will explore race in crime coverage and will argue that race played a critical role in legitimizing an economic model that abandoned industrial cities and a set of social policies that turned to prisons into warehouses for excess populations.
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• CTQWERTY

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  15 years ago

  Miami and Las Vegas I can see, but Portland?! They've got a lot of dull, boring clubs.
• SuperDude

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  15 years ago

  It's going to get worse with post-earthquake immigrants from Haiti coming in.
• samsung1

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  15 years ago

  CT, Toledo has a lot of strip clubs too. Hustler, Deja Vu, they are all the lame corporate types with low mileage though.
• CTQWERTY

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  15 years ago

  Sam, I don't they're many corporate clubs in Portland. Just a lot of lame and lamer places. At least with The Acropolis one can get a good steak and salad bar cheap. Otherwise...
• gk

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  15 years ago

  Toledo is a lame strip club town. It used to be a little better, but the city just got strict, even before the new law.
  
  Samsung, I think you nailed it--Toledo is a small town (relative to Detroit) "just 55 miles from Windsor" Canada. It's a depot!
• mitciv

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  15 years ago

  hmmmm.........MisterGay a little TOO interested in sex slaves. Can you say RAPIST STREAK a mile wide!