Don't call women inmates girls, prison staff are told
By DAN COCHLIN
Don't call women inmates girls, prison staff are told | the Daily Mail

The description is deemed 'condescending', while the use of 'lady or ladies' is also banned because the equivalent for male lags is gentleman or gentlemen, which is understandably little used.........Staff were also warned never to use 'insulting nicknames' or racial or impersonal terms. Mr McLellan also recommended that warders must give inmates bad news 'with compassion'.............Conservative Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Herbert said the Government should concentrate on tackling the crisis of a jail population bulging to more than 80,000 rather than how to address prisoners.

He added: "There are enough serious problems in our prisons without wasting time on pedantic political correctness."