UK will roll out chemical castration for sex offenders | CNN
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The British government is to rollout the use of medication to suppress the sex drive of sex offenders, as part of a package of measures to reduce the risk of reoffending and alleviate the pressures on the prison system, which is running out of space.

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said so-called chemical castration would be used in 20 prisons in two regions and that she was considering making it mandatory.

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    561·
    2 days ago

    alleviate the pressures on the prison system, which is running out of space.

    Ya know, one way to help alleviate the issue with having too many prisoners, is to reevaluate whether so many crimes should send people there.

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      64·
      2 days ago

      The prison population in England and Wales has doubled over the past 30 years or so to nearly 90,000. That’s despite a fall in crime rates and is driven in part by the fact that longer sentences are being handed out amid pressure to be tough on crime.

      brow

      • peeonyou [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        here ye here ye, we bring to account, this assembly, wherein we demand of ourselves stricter corrections on outlawed behaviors, and must submit to these pressures which we put upon ourselves

        *raucous stomping and chattering among the wigged crackers*

        • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          14·
          2 days ago

          I did not suggest it will. I posted a depressing figure that demonstrates the problem is policing and sentencing. There would currently be half the number of people in prison if we simply had the same sentencing and policing culture that existed 30 years ago. This shows how much the cultural attitude has slipped rightwards in the UK over the last 30 years.