Posted on 05/04/2016 4:59:14 PM PDT by mandaladon
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.”
The announcement follows a series of initiatives introduced as part of the Justice Department’s first National Reentry Week, through which law enforcement officials hope to reduce recidivism by revamping aspects of the criminal justice system.
A criminal record can prevent people from obtaining employment, housing, higher education or credit, the Justice Department noted.
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When do they start referring to the victims as “enablers”?
“Dindu’er” then.
I suppose rapists will now be called “Spurned Lovers?” And murderers will be called “Euthanasia Engineers?”
America has become silly.
Since they aren’t putting them in jail anymore I don’t see how “individual who was incarcerated” works. How about “individual who should have been incarcerated but was not”?
Hahahaha. Why not just call them “rehabilitated”. Should do wonders for their self esteem.
...The terms are helpful for administrative and appellate purposes...
They are also helpful for people to know who is moving in next door.
Another “man caused disaster”.
“They are also helpful for people to know who is moving in next door.”
Indeed. “Person who spent time incarcerated” applies equally to someone who was ultimately acquitted on appeal and may be utterly innocent in fact, or “convicted pedophile”.
No way to tell which.
“ubstitute terminology such as ‘person who committed a crime’ and ‘individual who was incarcerated’ in speeches and other communications”
How ‘bout ‘incarcerated’ or ‘Citizen’? We have no need of anything further. Prison was for paying their debt (some, at the end of a rope). Citizens have Rights and Liberty; no caste system.
One is Free or one is behind bars, there is no gradation.
AND prisons will be known as ??????????? Some idiot in charge will come up with something equally as stupid as this...
Jailbirds Felonious punks? Honor students??
They demonize all the time honest citizens who want to practice Christianity or want to live by their moral values or want to own guns - but they are concerned about the feelings of violent criminals.
The thread itself illustrates the futility of expecting our reality to continue when Obama decrees that he's empowered to define what is "the right thing to do" on behalf of 320 million people.
He has neither the moral nor the legal power to do that.
and...
Nameless unaccountable bureaucrats have no authority to define the language on behalf of the same 320 million people.
Bottom line:
Obama and his Justice Department and his 90% redundant bureaucracy can just ESAD!
Just remember under this dysfunctional government, the "/sarc" note cannot be assumed as intended to be there.
The DOJ and Progressives are continuing to change the language. Pretty soon it will discriminatory and against the law to call them "felons" or "criminals".
How about murderer, rapist, thief, robber, etc.?
Probably not...remember how the military-speak was scrubbed of jihad, muslim, terrorist, radical islam, etc.....
The doj people are the real criminals.
'Entrepreneur' is good.
...No way to tell which....
Currently, criminal histories list convictions as well as arrests. The difference is that adjudications after arrests generally state that there was a conviction, dismissal, or charges dropped, or no charges, and on conviction, the sentence including incarceration.
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