Unintended effect of 1998 Colorado law: More sex offenders in for life
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In Colorado prisons, the number of men and women serving life sentences for sex offenses today is 41 times greater than that of just 14 years ago.
On the roster of lifers, sex offenders now outnumber everyone else - killers, kidnappers, armed robbers, arsonists, habitual offenders, adults who fatally abuse children. Sixty-three percent of all Colorado prisoners sentenced to life are sex offenders, a figure that is more than four times the national average.
source: Article 'Unintended effect of 1998 Colorado law: More sex offenders in for life' by David Olinger; www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24443336/colorado-1998-law-consequence-more-sex-offenders-life; The Denver Post; 3 November 2013