One of the things I did the last few months was to visit our juvenile hall where I found that most of the young ladies in juvenile hall are there because of prostitution--prostitution related to trying to raise money by selling their souls, their bodies, to pay for drugs.
Correa highlights the link between juvenile incarceration and drug-related prostitution.
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