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Effort to eliminate criminal penalties for prostitution in Colorado will be abandoned

Jesse Paul

State Sen. Nick Hinrichsen, a Pueblo Democrat and main sponsor of Senate Bill 97, said the measure doesn’t have enough support to clear the Senate Judiciary Committee — its first hurdle.
Politics

Colorado would become first state to remove all criminal penalties for prostitution under bill brought by group of Democrats

Jesse Paul

While prostitution is legal in Nevada at licensed brothels in certain counties, and Maine decriminalized the selling of sexual services, no state has fully removed the criminal penalties for prostitution.