Did Fletcher have a ‘lived experience’?
WOKEISM truly has no boundaries or limits. The latest example is the edict from civil servants at HM Prison & Probation Service not to call criminals ‘convicts’ in case it offends them (Mail). If this word causes them ‘emotional’ distress, then perhaps they should have thought about that before committing their offences.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the next requirement will be to issue each prisoner being released with a questionnaire asking them to rate the experience in their particular HM ‘residential establishment’ with regards to accommodation, service, food and facilities, and how likely they would be to recommend the place on a scale of one to ten.
The irony of all this is that we are paying these idiots to come up with these schemes.
DENNIS FISHER, Leeds.
FORMER convicts are not ‘persons with lived experience’. They are, in the main, people who refuse to abide by the rules the rest of us take for granted. Going to prison is an acceptable occupational hazard for them. As a former prison officer, I never saw remorse in those under my control, with many back for their third, fourth or fifth time behind bars.
People like me have ‘lived experience’ as part of the rest of society that doesn’t break the law. This woke garbage is an affront to prison officers and the law-abiding. Believe me, most of those in prison aren’t misunderstood or worthy of such respect.
PHILIP MUNRO, Manchester. I WORKED in the Prison Service so know there is friction between undersiege front-line staff and ideological bureaucrats, most of whom never see the inside of a jail. It would be a shock for the Blob if they spent a week working in a prison and experiencing violence and intimidation.
D. FLEMING, Downham Market, Norfolk. WE’RE all ‘persons with lived experience’, but that doesn’t make us ex-cons.
B. THOMPSON, Sutton Coldfield, W. Mids. CIVIL servants at the Prison Service HQ should be called ‘persons with no lived experience’.
DAVID BOOTH, Oldham, Gtr Manchester. TREAT ‘residents’ of prisons with ‘decency and respect’? Would that be the same decency and respect they showed their victims?
G. J. CROSS, Isleworth, Gtr London. IF YOU’RE offended by being called a convict, there is a simple solution. Don’t commit a crime.
JANE BELL, Ludchurch, Pembs. THE poor dears should be called ‘people who have been on the naughty step’.
GEOFF OLIVER, Harrogate, N. Yorks. IT DOESN’T matter what the civil servants want prison officers to call those poor incarcerated souls. They will always be known as ‘scrotes’ and ‘pond life’ by the ‘screws’! DEREK NADIN, Embsay, N. Yorks.