Critics of Colorado’s sex-offender registration system charge it demoralizes and endlessly punishes people who genuinely want to be better, reports the Denver Post. They claim the Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB), a 25 member group which sets rules for evaluation, treatment and monitoring of sex offenders, teaches offenders to see themselves as incurable monsters’ decades after their […]
Month: January 2022
Critics seek reform of Colorado sex offender laws they say can do more harm than good Lawmakers, researchers and even some victims seek reform of state’s Sex Offender Management Board
William Woody, Special to The Denver Post Through a tiltshift lens, Wayne Bethurum stands in the living room of his Cedaredge home Thursday on Sept. 2, 2021. Bethurum, convicted decades ago of sexual assault on a child, acknowledges that “what I did was terrible,” but has found that the discovery of his name on the […]
