Texas has a $155 million Crime Victims' Compensation fund for counseling, medical treatment and other expenses. Victims of ...

One of the latest trends in data science is driving an initiative to combat a significant challenge: human trafficking. Researchers at Stanford University are weaving together the threads of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Traffick Jam, a Mercer University student-organization, has been working to drive out sex trafficking in Macon since 2015. Since ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced the National Human Trafficking Database Act. That act would establish a national human ...

The vast majority of people charged with human trafficking in this country are U.S. citizens, according to the Department of Justice. In 2023, U.S. citizens accounted for 96 percent of people charged ...

A Stanford team used geospatial data and detection algorithms to achieve a tenfold increase in rescues from modern slavery in the Brazilian Amazon. Now, they are planning to expand their approach. For ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A new report details human trafficking prosecution, arrest, and sentencing data provided by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The report uses information collected by ...

Since Texas became one of the first states to criminalize human trafficking in 2003, it has been at the vanguard of anti-trafficking policy. Now, with the introduction of the Texas Human Trafficking ...

For Human Trafficking Awareness Month, we explore human trafficking in Arkansas —victims, services, police response. Chris Kane interviews Sgt. Matthew Foster, AR State Police and Rep. Robin Lundstrom ...