Even before I got to The Marshall Project in December 2019, there had been calls from folks in our audience, many of whom were formerly incarcerated, some who are currently incarcerated, who would have a hard stop at words like “inmate” or “convict” or “felon.” And if you’re using language where a segment of your audience has a hard stop or a segment of your audience finds it distracting or, again, pejorative, then that’s something that you really need to examine.
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