Prostitution is not legal in Colorado Springs, Colorado. First line of the paper you cited: "Female prostitution is embedded in a context of felonious activit

Prostitution is not legal in Colorado Springs, Colorado. First line of the paper you cited: "Female prostitution is embedded in a context of felonious activity, illicit drugs, and violence." Also from the paper: "Deaths from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome occurred exclusively among prostitutes who admitted to injecting drug use or were inferred to have a history of it."