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The collateral consequences of mass incarceration have
been equally profound. We ban poor women and,
inevitably, their children from receiving food stamps and
public housing if they have prior drug convictions. 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. 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.
-Just Mercy,
Bryan Stevenson
Which detail from Just Mercy best supports the idea
that mass incarceration affects people who have not
been convicted of a crime?
O "The collateral consequences of mass
incarceration have been equally profound."
O "We ban poor women and, inevitably, their children
from receiving food stamps and public housing if
they have prior drug convictions."
O "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."
O "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
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