JOHN MEEKINS

When John Meekins first asked to be a "friend" on our facebook page, I noted he was listing his job as a "consultant for the Office of Victims of Crime Training".

So I added him, and then tried to open up a dialogue about the trainings we wanted to see done by the Office of Victims of Training.  I got no response from him at all to anything I sent him.  You can see how he's listed for his job there below.  This is taken from a group on Facebook about sex trafficking I'd joined called "Slave Rescue".


The last four posts I sent "Slave Rescue" were not posted for some reason.  I went to speak to the admin to find out why and I couldn't find a name for an admin.  

I then went to see who was in this group to get a better idea what was going on, and saw John's name as a member of this group.  

Only his name rang a bell.  I'd also seen his name on the SWOP blog asking for books to be sent to him to be sent to inmates. 


Over the last year, I've seen SWOP "recruiting" for the porn industry, the legal brothels, and the strip clubs by targeting inmates while still incarcerated.  Why?  Because then you know they're not an informant - that's why.  I was shown this as their reasoning by the traffickers I had tried to expose during "Operation Dollhouse".  It was that operation who showed me why they used guards to help them target inmates for their trafficking because then they didn't have to worry about undercover cops exposing what they were doing.  

What I've been told by inmates who have written to us is SWOP has started holding fund raisers for them while incarcerated.  They use the Cupcake Girls to help them accomplish this through their 501c3.  

This is what the inmates who write to us report is that SWOP is using the fund raisers to connect them to the sex workers to "recruit" them back into the sex industry on the outside.  




We are now battling for sex workers at the prison doors.   What I mean is we normally get a letter from an inmate who has heard about us from the jail chaplain.  They say they want to quit the sex industry as was the famous case of Kathleen Mitchell.  She wrote us from jail about 1989 and we sent her our step study program for inmates.  She was able to work her steps while in jail, and upon release she then got on her own two feet.  From there, she took a meeting of our 12 step program back into the Durango Jail.  That developed into the Dignity Project which has operated out of Phoenix for over 22 years now.  http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/ex-prostitutes-who-proselytize-6431069

NOW we're being told by inmates "well SWOP is offering to put together a fund raiser for me so I'll have $5000 cash when I get released.  They're offering to pay for my lawyer, and another sex worker is going to meet me at the jail door when I'm released to take me where I can go back to work in the sex industry".  

We have lawyers who DONATE their time to any sex worker who meets our "third tradition" requirement for membership, which is a "desire to leave the sex industry".  No we do not provide free lawyers to men, women or transgenders who are telling us they have no desire to get clean from drugs, nor to leave sex work - legal or illegal. 

To me that's just throwing good money after bad - especially if they're already in jail now.  To take someone from jail and put them back into sex work, and around a non-sober environment - is just going to send them right back to jail or worse.  So clearly whoever is doing this is NOT doing in the best interest of the inmate.  There is clearly a furthering of agenda here and from what I'm hearing it's they're being recruited back into the sex industry by people who are profiting from this, i.e., traffickers, pimps, and predators.  

But I ask you - how am I now supposed to compete with an inmate telling me "well why should I go with your program when you're talking to me about getting clean, and working a job, and going back to school when I can go this way with SWOP and grab this cash and go have me a party when I get released?"

I can't.

So I wrote to John Meekins and asked him if instead of providing books on sex workers rights and which glamorize the sex industry if he'd work with us to get "Recovery Guides" for our 12 step program, Sex Workers Anonymous, to the inmates if not instead of their books, then at least on equal footing and offer the inmate BOTH.  We have our "Recovery Guide" we can send them, along with maybe our jail step study workbook like we sent Kathleen, or even our newsletters which we could send to the inmates monthly.  In the newsletters we send to inmates now - we ask them to submit their stories on topics like why they want to quit the sex industry, what their plans are for the future, how they're going to get rid of any pimps they might be dealing with, and things like that.  

We got no answer from John and it's been a month now.

Strange.  If his goal was to provide books to inmates - wouldn't he be interested in MORE books to give inmates?  

Because it's one or the other.  If John just wants to recruit reading materials for these sex workers behind bars, then he'd welcome our materials too.   However, if he's got an agenda of some kind, then he would refute us the way he is doing now.  

So what's up?  What's the agenda?  Turns out John belongs to an anti-trafficking group "End Slavery".   Strange considering how much SWOP rants and rages against "trafficking" groups like "End Slavery".  http://www.endslaverynow.org/blog/articles/human-trafficking-behind-bars-and-beyond

So I'm confused.    First, I'm confused why SWOP is working with John Meekins of "End Slavery Now" when he's supposedly representing everything they're objecting to, while at the same time attacking anyone who wants anything to do with us who is simply, and only, a program which does nothing other than provide exit services for those who have asked for help from us to do so.  In other words, you don't see AA going into bars dragging drunks off stools.  Neither do we go crashing into the industry dragging anyone out of anything either.  But if we get a call they want help - then we help.  

But us - no.  John - yes.  I'm confused.  In trying to find out why they're partnering with him instead of even leaving us alone I'd be happy with instead of the constant attacks - I see he's on the board for "End Slavery" and also an ambassador for "Shared Hope"  (a name we keep seeing every time we find out someone isn't what they're pretending to be like Samoly Mam, Chong Kim, William Hillar, or a Kevin Brown) while at the same time working with SWOP to get books to inmates?  

Another side note about Shared Hope, when Melissa Farley came to us about doing the report on our work in 2007 for the press conference we gave you can read about at www.hightechmadam.com Melissa was also studying HOW we do our work.  Which means Melissa also learned we were getting our members through our jail mail step study program and newsletter.  She KNEW that this was how we making contact with them on the inside, and then arranging to have another recovering sex worker meet them at the door upon release, whereby we'd then help them get into housing, and jobs, and 12 meetings to get clean, and to get free legal assistance also.   

So why am I not surprised some guy who is connected to Shared Hope is now found using that same technique by SWOP to recruit people back into sex work? 


Doing a little more homework on John, I learn he might have even been a guard if I'm reading this right.  


A guard accusing a warden of targeting prostitutes for his own personal pleasure it seems.   Is this the same guy? 


Okay here's where it shows the "list of sex workers to get books" is being maintained by John Meekins on Maggie's blog for SWOP  https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/swop-behind-bars/



Three guesses where the books are going?  

Lowell.   Where John works. 

And the loop is complete.

This is what you call "unfair trade practices" and "economic interference" that I've been shouting about is going on with groups like Shared Hope and SWOP at the same time.  Two groups who are clearly using controversy as a means of driving press to them.  Kind of like when we read Emma Watkins using the same technique to get press for her UN speech.  http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/09/rantic-marketing-4chan-emma-watson-leak-hoax.html

This does explain why I keep not being even considered to speak at any of the Office of Victims of Crime trainings they put together.  I'm sure John doesn't sing my praises to them.  Not if he's such a supporter of SWOP.  

It does make me wonder how true his allegations were against the warden however considering his ties to End Slavery AND SWOP at the same time.  

But clearly his agenda is not about getting books to inmates.  If it was - he could down to the nearest used book store and pick up a whole load of books for a quarter each and bring them into the inmates. And if he cares so much about their "right" to be a sex worker, then wouldn't he also care they be FULLY informed about the industry?  Like maybe hearing from ex-sex workers?  Real ones I mean - not Samoly Mam's?

I don't know - but the real question is why is HE an consultant for the Office of Victims of Crime while we are not?  

This would be like not having Bill Wilson as a consultant to the National Council on Alcoholism, but to have a bartender as a consultant instead.  

So why is that Office of Victims of Crime?  

I'd also like to suggest the charges against the warden be looked at very carefully.  This is a man with ties to people involved in illegal prostitution who is then supposedly found contraband in the possession of prostitutes within the jail that brought the charges against him.   I mean honestly if this guy cared so much about the sex workers - then why isn't he taking them news of the resources we offer and letting THEM make the choice who they want to turn to for help?

Refusing to tell someone all their options and then asking them to choose is called "manufacturing consent" and isn't that what all pimps do?






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