In a continued effort to make the inmates happier about being in prison, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has implemented more terminology changes.
These changes to Title 15 under OAL Matter 2025-0123-03 are in accordance with the California Model changes intended to make inmates to feel better while incarcerated.
CDCR already changed:
“inmate” is now “incarcerated Person”
“parolee” is now “supervised Person”
The new changes are:
“offender” is now “incarcerated person”
“interstate offenders” are now “supervised persons”
Security Threat Group definition used to include “any offender…”, now it is “any person…”
“nonviolent felony offenders” are now “persons convicted of nonviolent felony offenses”
“youth offender” is now “incarcerated youth”
Most interesting is the name of the prison management software CDCR uses for most prison operations. The software which used to be called “Stategic Offender Management System (SOMS)” is to be re-branded to “Strategic Oversight Management System”.
We feel for the officers who are going to be issued report clarifications to change the terminology in incident reports and rules violation reports.