Sentence examples for criminalized status from inspiring English sources

"Sex workers often work in isolation because of the criminalized status of the work, but I don't think sex workers live in isolation," said Ms. Ray, now program director for the Red Umbrella Project, which helps sex workers tell their stories publicly.

Clinton wants to move marijuana from its current criminalized status as a Schedule I drug with no known use to a Schedule II drug with some known medical benefit, like opiates and cocaine.

Qualitative research among sex workers in Uganda has shown that the criminalized status of sex work excuses extreme violence against sex workers, inhibits their ability to reduce HIV risk and negotiate condom use, and often displaces them to isolated and dangerous areas to avoid police harassment [ 22– 25].

It is an untenable solution to codify and criminalize racial status.

And this holds true for inflicting violence on LGBT people, criminalizing their status or behavior, expelling them from their families and communities, or tacitly or explicitly accepting their killing.

Driving back from the Western Slope where Suthers participated in public outreach campaigns to combat methamphetamine use, the attorney general questioned the constitutionality of the tough Arizona law, as well as whether it's practical for state governments to criminalize immigration status.

During her reelection campaign last year, President Dilma Rousseff pledged support to a long-delayed initiative to criminalize homophobia and classify attacks motivated by sexual orientation under the same criminal status as racist violence.

HIV status is increasingly criminalized nationwide.

People of color mobilizing in a small space were criminalized for simply disrupting the status quo despite the sit-in's completely peaceful nature.

The DOJ brief argues that criminally punishing homeless people for sleeping in public when there is no other place to go criminalizes the status of homelessness in violation of the Eight Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - and also constitutes poor public policy.

Psychedelics were criminalized during the battle between hippies and the status quo, with the Vietnam War going on in the background.