[Susan]

Students call for prisons to be BANNED: NUS group headed by union's 'anti-semitic' new president says all criminals should be freed

• NUS black students' conference voted for motion to abolish all prisons
• Delegates said jail is 'sexist and racist' and called for inmates to be freed
• They also voted to step up campaign against the anti-extremism agenda
• Current NUS black students' officer Malia Bouattia has been elected as the union's next president despite anti-semitism claims

An influential students' group has called for prisons to be abolished because they are 'sexist and racist' in the latest in a series of far-Left interventions by the student movement.
The National Union of Students black students' conference also voted to step up its fight against the Government's anti-extremism agenda.
The controversial votes at the conference in Bradford this weekend came after the current NUS black students' officer, Malia Bouattia, was elected president of the union, defeating the more moderate incumbent.
She has previously argued that it is Islamophobic to oppose ISIS and described one university as a 'Zionist outpost' because it has a large Jewish society.
One of the motions passed at the conference on Saturday was titled 'Prisons are Obsolete! Abolish Them Now!', and resolved to 'call for the abolition of the prison-industrial complex'.
The motion, which pointed to high rates of re-offending and the disproportionate number of black people in jail, concluded: 'Prisons are sexist and racist.'
Students also threatened to deploy 'direct action' to fulfil their aim of disrupting the current prison system.
The vote called for anyone detained under the Mental Health Act to be handed over into NHS care, but was silent on what should happen to other convicted criminals.
In a separate motion, the conference voted to campaign against Prevent, the Government's main anti-radicalisation effort, being deployed in further education institutions.


Students compared the official campaign to 'Big Brother' and opposed attempts to teach 'British values' to sixth-formers and other FE students.
The black students' conference is supposed to represent the interests of all ethnic minority university and college students.
It is open to all students who consider themselves 'politically black' - and a motion to confine the definition of black to mean 'of African or Caribbean origin' was voted down by delegates this weekend.


The new black students' officer, Aadam Muuse, was endorsed by Miss Bouattia and has a track record of campaigning against Israel and Prevent.
In his manifesto, he vowed to fight 'the racists in Parliament wrecking black lives with impunity'.
He is currently an official at the students' union of Bradford University, which was responsible for proposing the anti-prisons motion at the conference.
The election of Miss Bouattia, 28, as NUS president last month prompted huge controversy because of her history of radical activism.
She once described her own university, Birmingham, as a 'Zionist outpost in British higher education', and opposed efforts for the union to issue a formal condemnation of ISIS because it would be a 'justification for war and blatant Islamophobia'.
Following her election, Labour MP and former NUS leader Wes Streeting said the union was 'lost', while his colleague John Mann said he was 'aghast' at her statements.
Several universities have since voted on whether or not to cut ties with the NUS, with Newcastle, Hull and Lincoln opting to disaffiliate from the union.
It was reported last week that Miss Bouattia was forced to write a letter of apology after an independent inquiry found she had been unintentionally anti-semitic.

Jail: The black students' conference claims that prisons are 'sexist and racist' and should be scrapped



Controversial: New NUS president Malia Bouattia, whose group has called for the abolition of prisons

[commondenom]

no doubt she has family members that are incarcerated....

i must agree that the prison system is essentially useless as a means of rehabilitation but they're not bad for keeping dangerous psychopaths off the streets.....

they definitely need a shake up though

[cubenesis]

The prison industrial complex is a means of modern day slavery. They have been made into a business and non-violent offenders are suffering, they are a commodity and it's just plain wrong. Save prison for violent offenders and people who are actually dangerous to society, not people caught with some weed or something equally as stupid.

[commondenom]

Originally Posted by cubenesis ↗

The prison industrial complex is a means of modern day slavery. They have been made into a business and non-violent offenders are suffering, they are a commodity and it's just plain wrong. Save prison for violent offenders and people who are actually dangerous to society, not people caught with some weed or something equally as stupid.

i agree, though the article above is based on the UK prison system which is still a government thing and not run by privately owned companies

[rob666]

Protecting society needs to be the number one priority.

Prison serves a purpose.

[icheerthebull]

Originally Posted by commondenom ↗

i agree, though the article above is based on the UK prison system which is still a government thing and not run by privately owned companies

I think a few are run by private companies like G4s. A lot of the youth prisons are for sure. Didn't the queen announce in her speech that all prisons will be privately run?

[commondenom]

Originally Posted by icheerthebull ↗

I think a few are run by private companies like G4s. A lot of the youth prisons are for sure. Didn't the queen announce in her speech that all prisons will be privately run?

it's possible...G4s is working it's way up to being the great british security company


you're right....they own 5 prisons... seems they are all what they call 'working prisons'....
http://www.g4s.uk.com/en-GB/What%20w...ing%20Prisons/

i wonder if they built the prisons themselves or if they took them over from HMPS


i'm sure most of our politicians, past and present would love to sell off the prisons the same way they've sold everything else off

[pbaj12]

I think we should get rid of prisons too. You intentionally kill someone, you die. You intentionally cause great bodily injury, you die. You rape once, castrated; rape twice, you die. You commit a minor crime, a lot of community service. Let's see how fast people reoffend.

[Pyramid_Head]

Uh oh, retard alert!

[nat906]

hey im barracking for the dude that tries raping twice . i mean man he has already lost his nuts so whats with that lol.