Washington State Prisons: No More "Offenders"

[Riot]

Washington State Department of Corrections is "phasing out" the word "offender" and will refer to those incarcerated as "individuals" instead due to the possibility that people may be offended by the word "offender".

Washington Department of Corrections No Longer Calling Inmates 'Offenders'

*update*

Several senators e-mail a memo to Richard Morgan (the Secretary of Prisons) in response to the "offender" to "individual" labeling. The Senators claim that neither Richard Morgan nor the Department of Corrections (DOC) has the authority to change the label since "offender" is a legal definition written in the Revised Codes of Washington (RCWs) and the Washington Administrative Codes (WACs).

Letter

DOC has since rescinded the memo for the transition...for now.

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[Mikej]

Uh...I guess "Wayward Lambs" wouldn't do?

 

[scrandall01215]

Just coddling them even more!!!

Stacy

 

[Connor Murphy]

Washington State Department of Corrections is "phasing out" the word "offender" and will refer to those incarcerated as "individuals" instead due to the possibility that people may be offended by the word "offender".

Washington Department of Corrections No Longer Calling Inmates 'Offenders'

"Individuals ", how inclusive.

 

[slimmer13]

SFM

scumbags feelers matter

 

[v0lcom13sn0w]

maybe they should call them criminals? isnt that what they are. F all this PC crap.

"America's biggest problem is being POLITICALLY CORRECT"

 

[Jamie6.5]

WTF is wrong with using the colloquial term.
"Convict"

After all, if they're in the prison they've been convicted.
Hence the term.

 

[HuckleberryFun]

I've never been to prison, but I'm still offensive.
Don't you dare demote me to "individual".

 

[mjbskwim]

How 'bout 'oboma's kids'? Kinda like Jerry's kids

 

[slimmer13]

So is a sex offender now a sex individual?

 

[mjbskwim]

So is a sex offender now a sex individual?

No no no....someone is bound to be offended by 'sex'

 

[waglockfan]

That's offensive

 

[HuckleberryFun]

That's offensive

I'm offended you're offended. I raise you indignant outrage.

 

[DB is Here]

The Victim's should get to name them...

 

[Libertas7]

maybe they should call them criminals? isnt that what they are. F all this PC crap.

"America's biggest problem is being POLITICALLY CORRECT"

Not sure I agree it's our biggest problem, but it's definitely up there.

Politically Correct: Two words that should almost never be in the same sentence.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Send them down to Sheriff Joe and let HIM figure out what to call them! You get Convicted and sent to prison you lose your rights to freedom, and that includes what you are referred as!!! Bunch Of Azzhats! Convict, Offender, Prisoner, Detainee, Felon, what ever...........you earned it, LIVE WITH IT! And BTW, one of the rights you loose is the right to bitzh about anything! No go change yer pink panties and S.T.F.U.

 

[WasrNwarpaint]

Send them down to Sheriff Joe and let HIM figure out what to call them! You get Convicted and sent to prison you lose your rights to freedom, and that includes what you are referred as!!! Bunch Of Azzhats! Convict, Offender, Prisoner, Detainee, Felon, what ever...........you earned it, LIVE WITH IT! And BTW, one of the rights you loose is the right to bitzh about anything! No go change yer pink panties and S.T.F.U.

so is there an issue with pink panties? now Im offended

 

[Ura-Ki]

I don't have any issue with any color or type of panties you choose to wear, or where you choose to wear them!!! That's all on You, if it offends you, go sit in your safe place and play with the cheese grater! LOL Sarcasm Warning.

 

[DB is Here]

I wear a Banana Hammock. No panties for me.

 

[Quartermaster]

So, prison's going to start being a safe space?