The pilot for the voluntary chemical castration of sex offenders will be extended to 20 prisons in England, the justice secretary has said.
Shabana Mahmood said she would expand a small pilot in south-west England to two regions, after an independent sentencing review recommended it continue.
Mahmood is also exploring a national rollout of voluntary chemical castration for sex offenders, and whether it could be made mandatory. No timeline for this decision has been set.
Forensic psychiatry Prof Don Grubin said he did not think the government would "get the mandatory element of it off the ground" as to "simply make somebody take [the treatment] would be very unethical and...most doctors I know would be resistant to it".
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