Good morning. I know sex offender treatment might not sound like an obvious August topic, but trust me, this is worth your attention. It’s a contradiction we seem unable to resolve: as a society, we abhor the crimes these offenders commit against mainly women and children, but put little thought into their management beyond (mostly temporarily) locking them away.
This may be about to change. Over the weekend, our home affairs editor, Rajeev Syal, revealed that thousands of male prisoners in England and Wales could soon be offered sex drive-suppressing drugs in a radical scheme aiming to reduce reoffending – and ease the prison overcrowding crisis.
