Boston Globe Spotlights Johns School

(Excerpt)

“The men in the audience are alleged criminal offenders, but on this July day they’re also students. All 18 of them are attending the state’s only “john school,” a daylong educational course for any men who have been arrested and charged with soliciting sex on the streets or over the Internet in Worcester. The crime is a misdemeanor punishable in Massachusetts by up to a $500 fine and a year in prison. But unlike other men arrested for the same crime anywhere else in the state, they were given an option. By paying a $200 fee and sitting through a six-hour series of presentations and testimonials about prostitution by Tina and others, they’re avoiding a conviction.”

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