That would more be an argument against how prisons are run than an argument against prisons per se.
Of course for the last century at least any attempt to reintergrate prisoners so they become less of a danger to society and less terminally violent, drug-addled fuckups runs into the same old predictable 'ur being soft on crims' narrative.
And so prisons are left to be violent, rapey, murderous torture-holes and crime schools until the inmates get let out at some point and do something worse than they did before they were chucked in.
Ah, fuck. This shit gives me a headache.