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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

commander person = commandant
attending person = attendant
defending person = defendant
incarcerated person = incarcerant?


41 posted on 11/04/2016 11:04:16 AM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: PROCON
If the DOJ uses the term 'students' (for criminals) that term will become tainted - and in twenty years people who use the term 'students' will be condemned. They'll be "politically incorrect" using an offensive term like 'student'...

Then DOJ types will have to come up with a new term. A new word to wash away the filth of the old word. That effort will fail also.

If criminals were called 'God's Gifts to Mankind' in twenty years that term would be offensive too. It's NOT the word that's the problem - it's the people who do crimes that are offensive - offensive to the rest of us. And that will never change.

People who rob others, hurt the innocent, steal or rape will NEVER have "a word" that won't become 'dirty' over time. The DOJ should stick with the words they have now...

What needs to change are the ways criminals ACT not what they're called.

42 posted on 11/04/2016 11:10:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (Comey's notifying Congress is a ringing endorsement of the power of the people.FreeperLiz)
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To: PROCON

Soooooooooooo....

Guests?


43 posted on 11/04/2016 11:12:49 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Menehune56

Call them what the IRS calls taxpayers: “customers”. (It’s true!)


44 posted on 11/04/2016 11:12:54 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: PROCON

“Outward Mobility Challenged Persons”


45 posted on 11/04/2016 11:16:32 AM PDT by rfp1234 (Hail Obambi, our Deer Leader)
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To: PROCON

The people making these decisions are morons, fools, idiots. They should be immediately fired and replaced with folks who have a brain, a keen sense of justice, and can work both together.


46 posted on 11/04/2016 11:44:05 AM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: Perseverando
We use to call them skids.
47 posted on 11/04/2016 11:44:36 AM PDT by peeps36 (Obama = the skidmark on America's underwear.)
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To: Trumplican

So the vile scum of society have their government subsidized safe space while we the people constantly have our life,liberty and property vilolated and police are assassinated. This administration starting with Obama, and as Clinton continues, have nothing but contempt and loathing for Americans with their childish name calling. I hate liberals.


48 posted on 11/04/2016 12:02:05 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: PROCON

This is being done for the future prisoners obama and the Clintons etc.


49 posted on 11/04/2016 12:15:40 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Menehune56; Gamecock
Clients?

We mostly called them inmates as far back as I remember. The doctors and nurses called them patients. The SAP (substance abuse program) instructors called them clients, but I didn't know that, until two instructors came to my cell block, and told me they needed to see some clients. I said, clients? You mean inmates?

The most PC thing I saw, was when they changed the department from CDC to CDCR. That was PC.

50 posted on 11/04/2016 2:42:01 PM PDT by Mark17 (20 Yrs USAF ATCer, RET. 25 yrs CDCR CO, RET.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Orwell was right.

In Ayn Rand's Anthem the word "I" didn't exist for the characters, not that they needed one, being part of the collective, and all. They didn't even have names...just numbers, if I remember correctly.

Coming soon to a republic near you.

51 posted on 11/04/2016 3:06:42 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: PROCON

Why not call them - ‘Gray Bar Motel guests’ or ‘Stupid Criminals’?


52 posted on 11/04/2016 3:21:46 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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