human trafficking

This year, UA's Blackmon-Moody Award was given to Dr. Burcu Keskin. She is a professor of operations management at the Culverhouse College of Business who specializes in supply chain networks and the disruption of illicit supply chains.

Current and former inmates of the Alabama prison system have filed a lawsuit challenging the prison labor program. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court says prisoners are forced to work for little and sometimes even no pay in jobs that benefit government entities or private companies. They called it a kind of ''modern day slavery."

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville led a congressional delegation over the weekend to U.S. Southern Command in Miami and various sites in Panama to meet with military leaders, diplomatic officials, and trade experts about securing America’s southern border, countering China’s growing influence in the region, and stopping human trafficking and drug smuggling.

The issue of sex and labor trafficking in Alabama will take center stage in Montgomery. The ninth annual Alabama Human Trafficking Summit will feature speakers from law enforcement to victims’ support groups

Alabama Public Radio is diving into our archives as APR observes forty years on the air. The U.S. State Department recently invited APR to address a delegation from Africa on our fourteen month investigation into human trafficking. Part of that talk was on an experimental database that law officers and victims’ advocates could use at the same time. Here’s that story from the APR archives.

An APR news featureThe crime of human trafficking is getting more attention in the news.An Alabama woman is suing a pornography web site she claims…

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Two Georgia men have been arrested on felony drug and prostitution charges after an undercover human trafficking operation at an…

January is Human Trafficking Awareness month. Advocates, organizations and individuals unite to raise awareness about the issue of human trafficking…

Readers please note this story contains content of an adult nature that might not be suitable for all ages. For the past 14 months, the Alabama Public…

Readers please note this story contains content of an adult nature that might not be suitable for all ages.“Seeing Steve stand over him like he was…