{"id":578,"date":"2022-01-16T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T17:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/colorado\/?p=578"},"modified":"2022-01-16T12:34:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T17:34:57","slug":"colorados-sex-offender-laws-create-endless-punishment-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/colorado\/colorados-sex-offender-laws-create-endless-punishment-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado\u2019s Sex Offender Laws Create \u2018Endless Punishment\u2019: Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Critics of Colorado\u2019s sex-offender registration system charge it demoralizes and endlessly punishes people who genuinely want to be better,\u00a0reports the Denver Post.<\/a>\u00a0They 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\u2019 decades after their offenses at the expense of more effective and humanizing therapies.<\/p>\n

\u201cRegistration does not work. It does not keep us any safer,\u201d said Emma Mclean-Riggs, an ACLU of Colorado fellow experienced in working with minors assigned to the sex-offender registry. A survivor herself, Maclean-Riggs says the system turns sexual offenders into \u201cmonstrous\u201d predators and does little to protect the public. \u00a0\u201cBecause I\u2019m a survivor I care about exactly one thing: what works,\u201d she adds, noting that Colorado is not very good at helping sexual abuse victims. A recent scathing report by the state auditor also found that board members were voting on policy matters to benefit their own firms and the delays in getting people past their parole-eligibility date into treatment. Forty-seven convicted sex offenders got out of prison last year without receiving treatment, the report found.<\/p>\n

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Critics of Colorado\u2019s sex-offender registration system charge it demoralizes and endlessly punishes people who genuinely want to be better,\u00a0reports the Denver Post.\u00a0They 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\u2019 decades after their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex-offender-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/colorado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/colorado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/colorado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/colorado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/colorado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/colorado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/colorado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/colorado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/colorado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/colorado\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}