‘Prisons are just an expensive way of making bad people worse’. Discuss this statement with reference to abolitionist perspectives and alternatives to punishment.

PLEASE USE HARVARD REFERENCING PLEASE MAKE USE OF REFERENCES BELOW Sim, J. (2009) Punishment and Prisons: Power and the Carceral State. London: SAGE (read chapter 7 ‘For abolitionist praxis: transcending the prison mentality’)Davis, A.Y. (2003) Are prisons obsolete? New York: Seven Stories Press (read chapter 6 ‘Abolitionist alternatives’)Seal, L. (2013) ‘Violet van der Elst’s use of spectacle and militancy in her campaign against the death penalty in England’, Law, Crime and History, 3: 25-41