Drawing on Sim’s article (2016) on prisons’ budget cuts during austerity, critically discuss the following quote:

Sim’s article (2016) on prisons

Drawing on Sim’s article (2016) on prisons’ budget cuts during austerity, critically discuss the following quote:

“The current [prison] crisis has been relentlessly tied to the budget cuts. While the cuts have intensified the crisis, they are not its cause”.