In a recent episode of “Returning Citizens: Life Beyond Incarceration” featuring YSRP, host Paul Butler…
YSRP Co-Director Lauren Fine on Social Entrepreneur Podcast
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A small thing that everyone can do, even if you are not involved in criminal justice or politics, is to be sensitive and thoughtful about language. Language has a lot of power, so I don’t choose to use words like ‘offender,’ or ‘juvenile delinquent,’ or ‘thug,’ or ‘criminal’ in describing someone. I use language that is more accurate in representing a whole person….If we think about the language that we’re using, it actually has a lot of power in terms of shaping responses to people and to situations that can…move us all forward as a society.