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Question 1 • 2025/26 IGC-English II - Prescriptive
Which detail from Just Mercy best supports the idea that mass incarceration affects people who have not been convicted of a crime?
Answer
A
“The collateral consequences of mass incarceration have been equally profound.”
B
“We ban poor women and, inevitably, their children from receiving food stamps and public housing if they have prior drug convictions.”
C
“We have created a new caste system that forces thousands of people into homelessness, bans them from living with their families and in their communities, and renders them virtually unemployable.”
D
“Some states permanently strip people with criminal convictions of the right to vote; as a result, in several Southern states disenfranchisement among African American men has reached levels unseen since before the Voting Rights Act of 1965.”