Prison officers have been told not to call criminals “convicts”, as the term could be offensive to some.
Civil servants have also instructed warders not to use the phrase “ex-con” for former prisoners. They should instead refer to them as “persons with lived experience” or “prison leavers”.
A Prison Service spokesman said the term convicts was “inaccurate, given a large proportion of prisoners are on remand ahead of trial and have therefore not been convicted”.
