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It's not really "voluntary" if you tell the prisoner that he can either be castrated and go free or refuse castration and spend the rest of his life in jail. It's incredibly coercive.
If the normal punishment would be life in prison, I don't see the problem with such a policy. The offender is simply given another option.The whole point of keeping them in prison is to protect society from their criminal actions. If they can prevent the offenders from committing further crimes by other means, there is little reason for them to be in prison. Do you think having the option to get castrated instead of prison is worse than no choice at all?