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While days of the chain gang are long gone, the effects of meaningful labor during imprisonment demonstrate marked benefits to both the prisoner and society. Some of these benefits take the forms of reduced recidivism, increased job skills and employability, and improved quality of life. In fact, corporations have hired jails to have their inmates perform work from manufacturing to telemarketing. However, some critics argue that prisoners who work are little more than bonded slaves, earning nothing for their labor and forced to do work that may be beyond their physical or mental capacity. Others are more concerned about the economic factors of cheap, noncompetitive labor or issues involved in giving inmates responsibility for critical components of products or providing them with lists of addresses and telephone numbers.
The author would most likely agree with which of the following sentences?
(A) Working may offset deleterious psychological conditions to which prisoners are exposed.
(B) Too many lawsuits filed against jails involve prisoners being forced to perform work they are not physically equipped to handle.
(C) Telemarketing corporations are the main entities that stand to profit from inmates working for free or at low cost.
(D) People in jail lack the mental skill needed to perform more challenging work.
(E) Adjusting the current model of inmate labor to have prisoners work for money or reduced sentences would improve the penal system.
(A) Working may offset deleterious psychological conditions to which prisoners are exposed.
(B) Too many lawsuits filed against jails involve prisoners being forced to perform work they are not physically equipped to handle.
(C) Telemarketing corporations are the main entities that stand to profit from inmates working for free or at low cost.
(D) People in jail lack the mental skill needed to perform more challenging work.
(E) Adjusting the current model of inmate labor to have prisoners work for money or reduced sentences would improve the penal system.
23 Jun 2025, 19:24
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how is the answer A and not E, could you please explain... @KarishmaB @Bunuel @Gmatninja
23 Jun 2025, 20:03
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SwethaReddyL
Hi. Not loving the passage and the answer choices.
However, E) is outside of the scope of the text. The author doesn’t really go with suggest that the penal system should be improved especially with the concept of reduced sentences.
I actually picked D) but I can see that I cited with the critics rather than the author so that’s also not correct.
I have rejected A) because I assumed quality of life would be outside of the prison but it could be read both ways and I think that’s what the explanation hinges on. It’s a very nuanced question plus I did not know the definition of the word deleterious. 😬 so I tend not to pick choices with the words I don’t know.
