‘Sex Offender: ‘No Second Chance’

Item: ‘There’s no second chance’: Man trying to create support group to help local sex offenders /Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d’Alene Press

More Info: Johnson has spent the last 35 years well aware that society looks down on him. He admits he feels ostracized and unforgiven. “Like we’re lepers,” he said. Johnson is a registered sex offender, convicted of first degree rape in Washington in 1976. He spent 12 years incarcerated at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Wash. As much as he wants to focus on the future, it’s difficult, he said. Society isn’t as willing to forgive sexual offenses as it is other crimes. (Gabe Green Coeur d’Alene Press photo of Bill Johnson)

Question: Should registered sex offenders be given a second chance?