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Louisiana Becomes First State in Nation to Allow Judges to Order Surgical Castration for Sex Offenders

by Jo Ellen Nott

In a controversial move among its “get tough on crime” measures advanced in the February special legislative session, Louisiana became the first state to permit surgical castration as a punishment for sex crimes under a new law signed by Republican Governor Jeff Landry on June 11, ...

 

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