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UK will roll out chemical castration for sex offenders (www.cnn.com)

submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours 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*

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This policy isn't going to significantly reduce overcrowding.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

No, the most they can do is slavery or corporal punishment. Or both.