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Old Jan 5th, 2010, 04:10 AM   #1
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AP - It was nearly midnight in a cramped mobile courtroom in the back of an 18-wheeler, and a prostitute in a Tweety Bird shirt was apologizing to a judge for falling asleep during her hearing.



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Social workers Aleba Croker, left, and Janie Metinger, right, comfort a 17-year-old arrested for prostitution as part of an intervention program in Dallas, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Dallas is taking a new approach to the world's oldest profession. Rather than treat prostitutes as criminals, police are treating them as sex crime victims. And rather than locking them up, Dallas police are giving some the chance to get clean and get off the streets. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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