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Justice Department program to no longer use ‘disparaging’ terms ‘felons’ and ‘convicts’
Washington Times ^ | 5/4/2016 | Andrea Noble

Posted on 05/06/2016 9:37:36 AM PDT by Syncopated

The Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs is eschewing the terms “felon” and “convict” when officials refer to individuals convicted of crimes, opting instead for less “disparaging labels,” Assistant Attorney General Karol Mason announced Wednesday. The Office of Justice Programs plans to substitute terminology such as “person who committed a crime” and “individual who was incarcerated” in speeches and other communications as part of an effort to remove barriers that officials say hinder progress of those who re-enter society after completing their prison sentences. “I have come to believe that we have a responsibility to reduce not only the physical but also the psychological barriers to reintegration,” Ms. Mason wrote Wednesday in a guest post for The Washington Post. “The labels we affix to those who have served time can drain their sense of self-worth and perpetuate a cycle of crime, the very thing reentry programs are designed to prevent.”

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To: Syncopated

White people will now be referred to as “justice advantaged”.


21 posted on 05/06/2016 10:23:00 AM PDT by moovova
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They don’t want to end up calling their buddies, Obama and Clinton, those “nasty” names.


22 posted on 05/06/2016 11:38:14 AM PDT by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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We should refer to them as ‘legally deprived’ or something like that.


23 posted on 05/06/2016 12:17:46 PM PDT by chopperman
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can't hurt their little feelers
24 posted on 05/06/2016 4:25:48 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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