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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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: convicts; corrections; inmates; language; offenders; prisons; wastate
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We wouldn't want to hurt the feelings of murderers and rapists now, would we?

It might make them feel bad./SHEESH

1 posted on 11/04/2016 10:18:10 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

How about “Guests of the state”? What idiots control our government!!


2 posted on 11/04/2016 10:19:30 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Mark17

Ping


3 posted on 11/04/2016 10:20:05 AM PDT by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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To: WKUHilltopper

They have no problem calling honest, hard working Americans racists.

Eff them. ALL of them.


4 posted on 11/04/2016 10:20:09 AM PDT by Trumplican
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To: PROCON

A nation of as***


5 posted on 11/04/2016 10:20:23 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: PROCON

I hope this idiotic DOC decision will be tossed out by PRESIDENT TRUMP


6 posted on 11/04/2016 10:20:38 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: PROCON

So “IPs” will just become another term for convicts.


7 posted on 11/04/2016 10:20:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: PROCON

How about ‘Restricted Recalcitrants’?...............


8 posted on 11/04/2016 10:21:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: PROCON

New term is Comrades.


9 posted on 11/04/2016 10:21:37 AM PDT by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis & other Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: PROCON

“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.’”


10 posted on 11/04/2016 10:21:41 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([VOTE FRAUD] == [CIVIL WAR])
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To: PROCON

Scumbags.

And by that I mean the leftist politicians.


11 posted on 11/04/2016 10:21:58 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Hillary is PARANOID. Give her more reasons to go bonkers.)
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To: PROCON

why not? some people even call an apparently illegal Islamonazi infiltrator “President”

/s


12 posted on 11/04/2016 10:23:03 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: Trumplican

Agree!


13 posted on 11/04/2016 10:23:43 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: PROCON

Resume, 2010-2013 Full time student at Shawshank.


14 posted on 11/04/2016 10:24:25 AM PDT by AU72
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To: PROCON

An incarcerated person is a convict. A prisoner could be a war prisoner. But I like Jail bird.


15 posted on 11/04/2016 10:24:59 AM PDT by poinq
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To: PROCON

Clients?


16 posted on 11/04/2016 10:25:46 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: PROCON

Well, don’t forget that they’ll be voting next week. Gotta’ give them lots of respect, ya’ know.


17 posted on 11/04/2016 10:26:33 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: PROCON

101 - break-ins
102 - finding reliable accomplises
103 - Casing the joint
104 - Hiring the right atty


18 posted on 11/04/2016 10:26:49 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (When the MSM wants your opinion, they will give it to you)
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If they’re in a class behind bars, they’ll be called ‘students.’

So how do I tell the difference between the "students" at the University of Washington who are allowed to leave campus and the "students" in prison in Washington who are not?

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we're not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller." - 1984, George Orwell

19 posted on 11/04/2016 10:27:06 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (" T'was the witch of November come stealin' " And who could the stealing Witch of November be? Hmm?)
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To: AU72
Resume, 2010-2013 Full time student at Shawshank.

Graduated Magna Cum Larceny.

20 posted on 11/04/2016 10:28:08 AM PDT by PROCON ("LOCK HER UP, LOCK HER UP!")
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