HELP ANSWER!!
Read the excerpt from Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson.
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.
We also make terrible mistakes. Scores of innocent
people have been exonerated [cleared] after being
sentenced to death and nearly executed. Hundreds
more have been released after being proved innocent of
Mark this and return
52:20
Which quotation from the excerpt most helps readers
understand why innocent people are given prison
sentences?
O "The collateral consequences of mass incarceration
have been equally profound."
O "Scores of innocent people have been exonerated
after being sentenced to death and nearly executed."
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 unseen since
before the Voting Rights Act of 1965."
O "Presumptions of guilt, poverty, racial bias, and a host
of other social, structural, and political dynamics have
created a system that is defined by error, a system in
which thousands of innocent people now suffer in
prison."