UK Prisoners rebranded as 'residents' by jail bosses to help rehabilitation

Criminals serving time in jail have been rebranded “residents” by prison chiefs and offenders have been renamed “supervised individuals” in official guidance for probation officers.

The move is seen by officials as an attempt to avoid “labelling” people as offenders in order to help them move on from their lives of crime.

But it has been criticised by former prison governors as evidence of “fashionable” and “hyper-liberal” theories that fail to force offenders to take responsibility for their crimes.

Even prison reform groups acknowledged they did not use the terminology and preferred to call offenders in jail either “prisoners” or “people in prison.”

It is part of a wider attempt to modernise prisons and focus efforts on rehabilitation which includes a £600,000 Government-funded project to assess whether rebranding and redesigning jails can reduce reoffending.

At HMP Berwyn in north Wales, the experiment has included renaming cells as “rooms”, pictured below, and prison blocks as “communities,” calling prisoners men and holding cells “waiting rooms” and providing inmates with laptops when they arrive and facilities for tea and sandwiches.

Last week Jo Farrar, head of the prison and probation service, used “residents” in announcing: “All prison governors will be given funding to spend on in-cell activities and extra technology to help our incredible staff support residents to maintain family ties and access support services.”

“Residents” is now part of the prison lexicon included in guidance, for example, from HMP Wandsworth, advising: “Residents have phones in their rooms and are able to make outgoing calls.”

In the latest executive summary for the probation service’s Target Operating Model, there is no mention of offenders but “supervised individuals” are referenced four times.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/06/prisoners-rebranded-residents-jail-bosses-help-rehabilitation/

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Outrage as video of anti-vaxxer Louis Farrakhan calling COVID vaccine the 'vial of death' is shared on Twitter and Facebook despite their misinformation 'crackdown'

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told believers that the COVID-19 vaccine is a 'vial of death,' a claim that was shared on Twitter and Facebook despite their misinformation policies.

A video of Farrakhan saying the vaccine 'is death itself' was reportedly shared on Facebook and YouTube, where it remained until Saturday night, according to Fox News.

Twitter users questioned why such claims from Farrakhan have been allowed to stay on the platform seeing as former president Donald Trump was banned.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9335699/Louis-Farrakhans-vial-death-vaccine-claims-remain-Twitter-despite-misinformation-policies.html

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