Prisoner needs remedial English.
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 10:21 pm
The family of a convicted killer is suing New York state for $50 million, saying he is being 'stigmatised' by being called an 'inmate'.
Gerard Domond, 49, says the term implies he was 'mating with other men' in his lawsuit against the state.
The Domond family want the state to stop calling him an 'inmate' as the term hurts his feelings causing him 'mental anguish.'
Speaking to the New York Post, his sister Marie Domond said the term: 'Implies that our brother is locked up for the purpose of mating with other men.'
Mrs Domond, who is acting as the family's lawyer, added: 'The suggestive nature of the word is disgraceful. This cruel psychological programming has weighed heavily on our emotional and psychological well-being.
'It's something that's bothered me for a long time.
'I couldn't understand why no one recognised that somebody being labelled an inmate, why they wouldn't recognise that.
'To me it just sounded very wrong.'
Gerard was convicted in 1987 after killing a man in a Brooklyn drug deal gone wrong.
Currently at upstate Clinton Correctional Facility, he will be eligible for parole in May 2013.
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