{"id":209749,"date":"2015-09-04T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=209749"},"modified":"2015-09-04T06:00:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T20:00:59","slug":"guam-legislature-oks-chemical-castration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guam-legislature-oks-chemical-castration\/","title":{"rendered":"Guam Legislature OKs chemical castration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HAG\u00c5T\u00d1A, Guam<\/strong>\u2014The Guam Legislature passed Bill 99-33, the \u201cChemical Castration for Sex Offenders Act\u201d yesterday morning.  Bill 99 requires the Department of Corrections to establish a hormone or anti-androgen pilot treatment program for persons convicted of sex crimes and who are eligible for parole or post-prison supervision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to my seven colleagues for passing this measure. With the support of Gov. [Eddie] Calvo, Guam will join seven other jurisdictions in the nation and will be the only territory in adopting chemical castration for sex offenders and pedophiles,\u201d stated Sen. Brant McCreadie.<\/p>\n<p>McCreadie further stated, \u201cToday is a great day for our community. We passed a bill to prevent the re-victimization our women and children. The legislature has spoken\u2014their message was loud and clear to eliminate these offenses and re-offenses.\u201d <strong>(PR)<\/strong><em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAG\u00c5T\u00d1A, Guam\u2014The Guam Legislature passed Bill 99-33, the \u201cChemical Castration for Sex Offenders Act\u201d yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-209749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}