Inmates

[jgw1]

AIBU to think that it is excellent that the government is dealing with the big issues of the day by calling those in prison inmates and not anything else.

I work in s prison and refer to prisoners and address them as Mr Smith or Jones etc.
There is no collective noun. They as anyone else are all individual people

Unless they're in prison for a long time, it won't necessarily reduce their pension because we have over 50 years (age 16 to 67) to accrue 35 years of contributions, so quite a few spare.

Plus of course there's pension credit for someone with a reduced pension.

@SpindleInTheWind You may also be interested to learn that, on leaving prison, inmates receive a 'leaving prison' payment of around £50 plus the cost of a bus/train ticket back home.

I'm more concerned that the word 'woman' is not used in prisons. I've been involved in something to do with prisons that is only an issue for biological females and watching their man repeatedly trip over himself to avoid using the word woman was both hilarious and terrifying at the same time. Every time I spoke about the issue I looked straight into the camera and said 'so when you do this to WOMEN you need to follow the X procedure'.

This is what is wrong with prison today, if you just said oi inmate, then that would make up for the woeful lack of funding and support for prisons.