Cleansing language
When a person says "Prisoner" in here to a pig, or calls the pig a "prison guard" these pigs take a double look at you. A few get up set. A prisoner is clearly a person that is being held against their will. Vs an "inmate". An "inmate" is a voluntary guest of a correctional inst
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I use "prisoner" often and dont like inmate; I also use caged, incarcerated people.....
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I agree, I look at it like Prisoner implies the power of government exerted against someone to cage them, it acknowledges where a person is AND who is keeping them there. Inmate focuses on where they are, it’s historically included people in hospitals. It’s simply not as correct.
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