Bangkok Post – Dept: Don’t call Thaksin an ‘inmate’

The Department of Corrections has asked people not to refer to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as a prison inmate to help smooth his future return to society, even though he is serving a jail sentence while in hospital.

The request was made in a press release issued yesterday. There was no attributed spokesman.

The statement said the department referred to male and female offenders as inmates only when they were actually in prison. This practice was in compliance with the Corrections Act.

The word inmate should not be used when inmates’ names are mentioned outside prison. The statement said that doing so could affect their return to society and infringe on their human rights.

The honorifics…