I'm going to guess this wasn't done for the benefit of felons, who would probably laugh and roll there eyes, or get pissed at the thought that changing a word t

I'm going to guess this wasn't done for the benefit of felons, who would probably laugh and roll there eyes, or get pissed at the thought that changing a word to a phrase helps their situation in any sort of way. In general with this sort of thing, how is a phrase preferable to a word? You're increasing the cognitive load and time to write it out.