8 Officers & 6 Detainees Injured In Baltimore Incident
BALTIMORE COUNTY (WJZ) — Eight correctional officers and six detainees were injured Sunday night at the Baltimore Pre-Trial Complex.
Officials say the incident occurred at 10 p.m. Sunday when detainees refused to be locked into their dorms after an argument between an officer and detainee.
The detainees reportedly attacked the officers and some fellow detainees before barricading themselves in the dorms.
Why are prisoners now called "detainees"? . As for me I do not say Correctional Officers and detainees in the same sentence.
The posted article kind of reminds me of a delicate person in a Tutu, drinking tea with the little finger in the air,. Throwing in the term Correctional Officer (which is a Prison Guard) makes me think "prisoner". When did the pc police change the term "Prisoners Under Lock Down" to detainees under lock down"?.
If you are arrested for say, a DUI and are unable to make your bail, you are a "detainee" until you have your trial. If you are found guilty then you become a prisoner, or an inmate or a convict. The state of Maryland does not allow the Correctional Officers to refer to the convicted felons as "prisoners' or "convicts" as those terms are considered offensive in the state prison system. However if one is convicted of a crime and ordered to serve a short sentence they are sent to a county jail and generally considered inmates.
Seriously? They can't call them "prisoners" or "convicts" because it might "offend" them?
I can understand referring to those in jail awaiting trial because they couldn't bond out, as "detainees". But once they are convicted, that makes them a "convict"'! So politically correct, don't want to hurt their feelings.
Perhaps we should call them "guests of the state".
Or "involuntary residents". How about "unprocessed suspects"?
Why are prisoners now called "detainees"? . As for me I do not say Correctional Officers and detainees in the same sentence.
ReplyDeleteThe posted article kind of reminds me of a delicate person in a Tutu, drinking tea with the little finger in the air,. Throwing in the term Correctional Officer (which is a Prison Guard) makes me think "prisoner". When did the pc police change the term "Prisoners Under Lock Down" to detainees under lock down"?.
They should be starved and worked 12 hours a day.
ReplyDeleteIf you are arrested for say, a DUI and are unable to make your bail, you are a "detainee" until you have your trial. If you are found guilty then you become a prisoner, or an inmate or a convict.
ReplyDeleteThe state of Maryland does not allow the Correctional Officers to refer to the convicted felons as "prisoners' or "convicts" as those terms are considered offensive in the state prison system. However if one is convicted of a crime and ordered to serve a short sentence they are sent to a county jail and generally considered inmates.
Seriously? They can't call them "prisoners" or "convicts" because it might "offend" them?
DeleteI can understand referring to those in jail awaiting trial because they couldn't bond out, as "detainees". But once they are convicted, that makes them a "convict"'! So politically correct, don't want to hurt their feelings.
Perhaps we should call them "guests of the state".
Or "involuntary residents". How about "unprocessed suspects"?
Or just...jailbirds.
How about repeat offenders lose citizenship and we send them to Mexico like they do to us.
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