Colorado prison backlogs for sex offender rehabilitation lead to missed parole dates

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Colorado prison backlogs for sex offender rehabilitation lead to missed parole dates, others getting out without treatment

When Colorado lawmakers overhauled the state’s system of sentencing and monitoring sex offenders in 1998, supporters described the lifetime supervision policy as a comprehensive way to protect the public and stop further crimes.

The new system required many sex offenders to receive treatment in prison before they could be released — and then to continue receiving supervision once they got out. The new sentences would be open-ended, or “indeterminate,” lasting perhaps from two years at a minimum to a maximum of life — either in prison, for those who couldn’t or wouldn’t complete treatment, or on parole, for those who did, Seth Klamann reports.

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