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Prisons chief testifies why they aren’t called ‘offenders’
By heraldnet.com- Jerry Cornfield
Published: 01/13/2017

OLYMPIA — The outgoing leader of the state Department of Corrections went before lawmakers Thursday to explain his decision to stop referring to the men and women in prison as “offenders” in the agency’s written policies and daily practices.

Acting Corrections Secretary Dick Morgan, whose tenure ends Friday, told a Senate panel he initiated the change in vocabulary because the word “offender” conveys a stigma on individuals long after they are freed.

“There’s a sense of permanence around the department labeling somebody as an offender,” he said at a meeting of the Senate Law and Justice Committee. “There’s no conclusion to the time that they are an offender.”

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