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Synthesizing Information to Create New Understanding

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.”

Explanation

Choice B best supports the idea because it says that children can lose access to food stamps and public housing when their mothers have prior drug convictions. The children are affected by the consequences of incarceration even though they have not been convicted of a crime themselves. The other choices describe consequences for people with criminal convictions more generally.

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