Jacqueline B. Helfgott: What the release of the South Hill rapist says about the civil commitment of sexually violent predators, remorse and justice

Jacqueline B. Helfgott: What the release of the South Hill rapist says about the civil commitment of sexually violent predators, remorse and justice

I never met Kevin Coe, but I saw him once while touring the Washington State Penitentiary as a college student in the late 1980s. I had been following his case in the news. Seeing Kevin Coe in person made crime, rape, psychopathy, incarceration and remorse something that I have never stopped thinking about.