The title to this post is an excerpt from a well written article entitled, “My Turn: State officials must accept that sex offenders can change” that appeared in the Concord Monitor.
The article correctly points out that the money to be made from the false belief that sex offenders never change is significant. The money trail is found in all the fees that are collected by independently contracted counselors – licensed by the state. The state collects licensing fees. The men and women on parole have to see these counselors weekly and have to pay for it themselves. Why should they ever get better? Why should they be released as healthy and changed? There’s no money in human transformation.
The writer points out the need to purge the State’s propensity to make money from its “rehabilitation” programs. They also need to end all clear conflicts of interest in the counseling and reporting of ex-prisoners. After all, if an individual will be required to continue paying a weekly fee to a counselor and that counselor is left to unilaterally decide for how long they will continue to collect that fee (rather, “continue providing counseling to that individual”), the fee earner will want to continue earning for as long as possible.
Obviously, with the VERY LOW rates of recidivism amongst sex offenders and the fact that the overwhelming majority of offenses committed by first time offenders; sex offenders CAN change and very successfully avoid re-offending.
So next time you hear someone spew the very false “sex offenders can’t change” phrase; consider what their financial motivation is.
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