Libs are always trying to “fix” things to fit their worldview. They get offended by common phrases and find fault where any reasonable person would find none. So now these woke Libs are affecting law enforcement. A Liberal Sheriff in Wisconsin is trying to get rid of the term inmate, apparently, some criminals find it offensive…Sheriff Kalvin Barrett claims he wants to get rid of the word inmate and replace it with “resident.”
“I’ve learned a new perspective,” Barrett announced. “We will no longer refer to those in our care of the Dane County Jail as inmates but we will use a more humanizing term like resident or those within our care. This change in language is a way to humanize those incarcerated in our Dane County Jail.”
“This will allow us to move toward a 21st century policing mindset in which we treat everyone within our community with dignity, respect, and humanity,” Barrett said. He called it “normalizing language.”
“As your sheriff, I believe our philosophies, policies, and practices should be proactive and not reactionary like many other areas of our criminal justice system,” Barrett said.
“The Dane County Sheriff’s Office is a national leader in appropriate progressive reform, and many follow our lead.”
“Barrett was appointed Dane County Sheriff by Gov. Tony Evers. The appointment fills a vacancy created by Sheriff David J. Mahoney’s resignation, effective May 8, 2021… He is currently a law enforcement officer at Wisconsin State Fair Park and teaches law enforcement and criminal justice at Madison College where he is the faculty director of the criminal justice studies program.”
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This is totally unnecessary. Inmates are not there of their own free will. A person is put in jail when they break the law, there is no reason that they should feel like they belong. It is supposed to be a punishment to let the offenders think about what they did. There is no reason that we start sugar coating words to make criminals feel better. No one is forcing anyone to commit a crime and become an inmate.