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.




Choose the sentence in the passage that provides support for the main argument.