Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Meanwhile - in the U.K.
I wonder what the crime victims call them...
Tom Whitehead reports in the U.K. Telegraph:
"Prison officers have been told not to refer to their charges as "inmates" because it might offend them.
Prison staff have been told to use the word 'prisoner' in preference to the words 'inmate' or 'offender'.
Ministers claim the age-old term is not appropriate if criminals are to be treated with 'respect and dignity'."
