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The UK government is to deploy the use of medication to curb sexual impulses among sex offenders as part of its package of measures to mitigate and mitigate the risk of reattacking pressure on the space-lacking prison system.
In a statement to Congress on Thursday after the announcement of the independent sentencing review, Attorney General Shabana Mahmoud said that so-called chemical castration will be used in 20 prisons in two regions, and she said she is considering making it mandatory.
“Of course, this approach is important to be taken with psychological interventions that target other causes of violations, such as asserting power and control,” she said.
The review highlighted that treatment is not related to some sex offenders, such as rapists, driven by power and control, rather than sexual preconceptions, but Mahmood said that chemical castration could lead to a 60% reduction in reattacks.
It is used voluntarily in Germany and Denmark, and is a must for some criminals in Poland.
The recommendation was part of a broad review led by former Attorney General David Gorke. In addition to seeing how to reduce reattacks, Goke has also encouraged reforms and overhauled the prison system, which is running at near capacity.
One of the first things Mahmoud did as Minister of Justice after the Labour Party returned to power in July 14 last year was to sanction an early release program to free up space for prisoners. She says she inherited a judicial system that had been ignored for years by previous conservative governments and set up a review as a way to stabilize it.
“If our prison collapses, the courts will be forced to suspend the trial,” she said. “The police have to stop arrests, crimes cannot be punished, criminals run through Amok and are in chaos. We are facing a fall in the law and order of this country.”
This review recommends that offenders may be released from prison earlier than they are now, but judges may be given more flexibility to impose punishments such as bans. He also recommended that sentences of less than 12 months be abolished, except in exceptional circumstances such as domestic abuse cases. They were also required to be sentenced to no more than three years for immediate deportation for foreigners.
This review called for higher investments in probation services to allow officers to spend more time with offenders for rehabilitation and provide more funding for being tagged in the community.
Mahmood responded by giving £700 million ($930 million) per year to probation within a few years.
“If the government doesn’t put the resources we need on probation, the risk here is not to advance the rehabilitation we need, and there’s a public backlash against it,” Gorke said.
The prison population in the UK and Wales has doubled to nearly 90,000 in the last 30 years or so. This is partly due to the fact that despite the decline in crime rates, longer sentences are being handed amidst pressures of severe crime.
Robert Jenrik, a spokesman for Justice for the Conservative Party, warned that discarding short sentences would effectively “decriminalize” crimes such as robbery, theft and assault. And he said the tag is just as convenient as a “smoke alarm that emits a fire” when stopping a reattack.
In response, Mahmoud said he was clearing up the chaos left behind by conservatives and that the government was also embarking on the biggest expansion of prison property since the Victorian era of the 19th century.
