Sex offenders serving time in psychiatric prisons should have the right to chemical castration, according to a new report from the criminal law application council RSJ, quoted in the Volkskrant.

At the moment, some psychiatric prisons refuse to give prisoners the drugs cocktail to keep their libidos under control, and that is unacceptable, the commission says. By refusing, the prisons are not giving prisoners good care and are reducing their chances of getting out.
‘Every prisoner must have the same chance of getting the treatment he needs. That can make the difference between getting out and removal to a long-stay ward,’ RSJ board member Louis Donker told the paper.