Illinois legislators set to change ‘offender’ to ‘justice-impacted individual’

Illinois Politicians Seek to Change ‘Offender’ to ‘Justice-Impacted Individual’

Illinois lawmakers have approved a measure that would modify the language in state law to stop identifying certain people who have committed a crime as offenders. On May 21, the Illinois Senate passed HB 4409. Introduced by Democrat lawmakers, the bill amends the Illinois Crime Reduction Act of 2009, replacing the term “offenders” with “justice-impacted individuals” in the state’s “Adult Redeploy Illinois” (ARI) program. The ARI initiative seeks…

IL Dems Want to Change Term 'Offender' to 'Justice-Impacted Individual'

Democrat state lawmakers in Illinois are hoping to change a 2009 bill to reclassify the term used for criminals. The post VIDEO: Illinois Democrats Want to Change Term ‘Offender’ to ‘Justice-Impacted Individual’ appeared first on Breitbart.

Illinois bill changes references to ‘offender’ to ‘justice-impacted individual’

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — A measure that passed both houses of the Illinois legislature this week will change references to criminal "offenders" to "justice-impacted individuals" as part of a program to find alternatives to prison time. House Bill 4409 amends language in the Illinois Crime Reduction Act to refer to people convicted of a crime as "justice-impacted individuals," a move that has Republican lawmakers claiming it disrespects victims…

Violent Criminal Offenders Are Now ‘Justice-Impacted Individuals’

A couple of months ago, in March, a 37-year-old man named Crosetti Brand was released on parole in the state of Illinois. He had been locked up on a charge of home invasion and sentenced to more than a decade in prison, but the state’s prisoner review board decided to let him out early with electronic monitoring. What happened next was predictable. Just a day after he got out of prison, Chicago police say Crosetti attacked a pregnant woman and h…

US state to re-label ‘offenders’ as ‘justice impacted individuals’

Illinois lawmakers have passed a bill aimed at changing the word “offender” to a more neutral term in the criminal code

‘Offenders’ to become ‘justice-impacted individual’ under Illinois Dem lawmakers’ new proposal

"If a person is going to get on the right path, they have to know they did something wrong," GOP state Sen. Steve McClure argued.