Carcieri to sign prostitution bill into law Tuesday
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Governor Carcieri will sign into law a bill to outlaw indoor prostitution in Rhode Island Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the State House. The legislation, which is effective immediately upon signing, will make prostitution that occurs in brothels, strip clubs, homes or other indoor venues a criminal misdemeanor punishable for first offenders by up to six months in prison and fines of up to $1,000, or both. Prostitutes convicted of multiple offenses would face up to a year in prison and fines of up $1,000, or both. The bill, approved overwhelmingly by the House and Senate last Friday night, will close a nearly 30-year-old loophole in the state's prostitution law that outlawed soliciting for prostitution but had no prohibition against prostitution that occurred indoors. That law, police have said, have prohibited police from investigating and prosecuting prostitutes who work out of brothels or strip clubs or their homes. The governor, who is scheduled to sign the legislation at a ceremony in the State Room, will be joined by State Attorney General Patrick Lynch, State Police Colonel Brendan P. Doherty, and the bill's sponsors, Rep. Joanne M. Giannini, D-Providence, and Sen. Paul V. Jabour, D-Providence.
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All the brothel owners and "employees" are running around in a panic all screaming "what do we do??? What do we do???"
Just figure out a new angle for your business. The law always provides loopholes for those that are smart enough to find them. And the girls are head and shoulders smarter than our GA. Should be a piece of cake.
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so I have until tomorrow...
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I'm packing up RI is becoming a communist state.zz
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The hotel and hospitality business is going to drop big time now because alot of businessmen liked doing business trips to providence.with the law passed It looks like many will just go to Vegas instead.
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If a woman does not have the right to chose who she will have sex with then she sure does not have the right to abort a child. The woman's body belongs to the State when it comes to reproduction not to her.
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