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DOC memo: We're no longer calling inmates "prisoners", "convicts" or "offenders"
komonews.com ^ | Nov. 3, 2016 | Pete Combs

Posted on 11/04/2016 10:18:10 AM PDT by PROCON


They were once prisoners, inmates or offenders. Now, the nearly 19,000 residents of Washington’s 12 state prisons will be referred to another way.

Those serving time in prison will no longer be referred to as “offenders” or “convicts,” according to a memo from the leader of the Department of Corrections. If they’re in a class behind bars, they’ll be called “students.” If they’re in the prison infirmary, they’ll be called “patients.” And, spokesman Jeremy Barclay said, if no other moniker applies, they’ll be called “incarcerated persons.”

“Secretary of Corrections Richard Morgan has put out a memo to staff requesting the alternation of vocabulary,” said Barclay. Secretary Morgan is trying to remove negative connotations when referring to those who are or have been imprisoned—as well as their families.

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KEYWORDS: convicts; corrections; inmates; language; offenders; prisons; wastate
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To: PROCON

What degree do we confer upon these ‘students’ after they have completed their course of study at Greybar University?


21 posted on 11/04/2016 10:28:29 AM PDT by Ed Condon (subliminal messages here in invisible ink)
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To: PROCON

“Secretary Morgan is trying to remove negative connotations when referring to those who are or have been imprisoned—as well as their families.”

If being imprisoned for committing a crime doesn’t deserve a negative connotation,what does?

Being white?

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22 posted on 11/04/2016 10:28:54 AM PDT by Mears
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To: PROCON

How “PC” of them


23 posted on 11/04/2016 10:29:00 AM PDT by Tx Angel
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To: PROCON

So, hopefully, Hillary will soon be a student.


24 posted on 11/04/2016 10:33:19 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: PROCON

We now call them, “Victims of White American Racist Imperialist Oppression”.


25 posted on 11/04/2016 10:33:55 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: PROCON

And he will no longer be called Secretary of Corrections, he will be referred to “He Who Has His Head Up His Ass”


26 posted on 11/04/2016 10:34:36 AM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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To: PROCON

Why not future democrat voters?


27 posted on 11/04/2016 10:35:10 AM PDT by machman
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To: PROCON

If the goal is trying to remove negative connotations when referring to those who are or have been imprisoned, I don’t think the term “incarcerated persons.” does the trick.


28 posted on 11/04/2016 10:35:49 AM PDT by MaxistheBest
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The new term, at least privately among the Democrats, is “our voters.”


29 posted on 11/04/2016 10:35:59 AM PDT by arthurus (Hillary's campaign is getting shaky)
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To: PROCON

At least they stopped short of calling them heroes, mentors and compatriots.


30 posted on 11/04/2016 10:36:59 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: PROCON

There’s more to this than meets the eye.


31 posted on 11/04/2016 10:38:47 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: PROCON

How about “Obama’s children” or “Hillary’s children”?


32 posted on 11/04/2016 10:41:04 AM PDT by LostPassword
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I’m surprised they didn’t follow Disneyland, and call them “guests”.


33 posted on 11/04/2016 10:44:35 AM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: PROCON

Guest staying at Crowbar Hotel.


34 posted on 11/04/2016 10:46:27 AM PDT by isom35
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To: Right Brother
And, spokesman Jeremy Barclay said, if no other moniker applies, they’ll be called “incarcerated persons.”

Yes, Hillary will soon be a student, as well as being an incarcerated person. I would prefer that she and her associates in prison be called "basket of deplorables". Defined as "Worthy of severe condemnation or reproach". That's what they truly are.

35 posted on 11/04/2016 10:47:47 AM PDT by roadcat
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When is a “con” not a “con?” When the are in a Washington State “Correction Center” as there are no more prisons, penitentiaries, or jails.
36 posted on 11/04/2016 10:50:28 AM PDT by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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Jailbirds


37 posted on 11/04/2016 10:50:51 AM PDT by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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simply one more federal gub mint agency this mookabooker has destroyed.
EVERY aspect of the federal gub mint has been made in to horse crap by this punk ass negro.


38 posted on 11/04/2016 10:55:19 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Her ass belongs in prison.)
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The likes of Robert Morgan should no longer be referred to as “government officials” but “radical moles” and their memos no longer referred to as “official directives” but “acts of institutional sabotage.”
39 posted on 11/04/2016 10:58:42 AM PDT by drpix
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Why does he think “incarcerated persons” is OK?

It’s no different than prisoner or jailbird.


40 posted on 11/04/2016 11:01:56 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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