Wow this is stupid. I guaran-fucking-tee these "prison abolishers" wouldn't sit in a room unchecked with a violent criminal. Some dude with tattoos all over his face, 6'5 and 320 pounds of muscle. Yet here they are sitting on their soap box talking about how prison isn't necessary and how we just need more resources.
If anyone seriously believes this - you are free to go into the slums in any major city and fix them yourself. But that won't happen because these cowards sit comfortably behind a beaurocratic chair expecting someone else to do the dirty work.
I'd love for prisons to not exist. But they do for a reason.