Posted on 05/23/2024 1:11:32 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
State lawmakers have passed a bill that, if signed into law by Governor JB Pritzker, will change the term “offender” in state law to “justice impacted individual.”
The proposed change blew up on social media, with some people mistakenly thinking that people who commit crimes would get a rebranding. Instead, it would only apply to participants in one program meant to rehabilitate people and keep them out of prison.
The specific proposed law, House Bill 4409, would remove the term “offender” and replace it with “justice impacted individual” for men and women in the state’s “Adult Redeploy Illinois” program, commonly referred to as A.R.I.
A.R.I. is an initiative that aims to keep some offenders from going to prison by connecting them to rehabilitation programs. Before the senate vote Tuesday, Republicans said the language change portrayed a lack of empathy for victims and a lack of concern for public safety.
“Change this, change that, the only thing you don’t want to change is the behavior of criminals,” said state senator Steve McClure (R-Springfield). “And guess who is paying for that right now? Victims all across the state. I urge a no vote.”
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This wimpy, limp wristed stuff really needs to stop.
Call it like it is.
“Shouldn’t they be called Prison Atrracted?”
Read the article.
so are the Victims UNjustice impacted individuals ???
“justice impacted individual.”
So unfair.....and probably racist too.[/s]
Are they going to start labeling rapists as sexually compromised individuals? Pedophiles as child-impacted individuals?
Was going to say that rapists were indivduals who are negatively impacted by women’s modesty and morals. How dare she not sleep with me on demand!
Prison Attracted Person...then if you said something bad about them, it’d be a pap smear.
“ it would only apply to participants in one program meant to rehabilitate people and keep them out of prison”
Because they’re Prison Attracted
“Because they’re Prison Attracted”
Because they’re Prison Repulsed.
They are in a program that keeps them out of prison.
Attraction to Crime = Prison
If they weren’t as I’ve stated they wouldn’t need a rehabilitation program to keep them out of prison
“If they weren’t as I’ve stated they wouldn’t need a rehabilitation program to keep them out of prison”
If they were prison attracted they wouldn’t be in a program to keep them away from prisons.
They’re crime attracted. Crime = Prison
Avoiding Prison = more crime
Anything to get back out on the street gang banging for crime
This is Chicago we’re talking about not some poor Amish or was got drunk driving his horse cart! lol
Great minds think alike. I expect to see a Babylon Bee article on this.
My gosh...why not call them non law abiding citizens...?
As if justice is the offender and the criminal is the victim of justice?
How F’d up can they get?
G1
The left is working on changing pedophile to "minor attracted person." I wish I could beam them all to another galaxy.
Sickening isn't it?
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