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While days of the chain gang are long gone, the effects of meaningful [#permalink] New post   22 Jun 2025, 12:58
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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.




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"Some of these benefits take the forms of reduced recidivism, increased job skills and employability, and improved quality of life."






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While days of the chain gang are long gone, the effects of meaningful [#permalink] New post   24 Jun 2025, 04:15
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This question asks you to evaluate possible explanations and compare them to your understanding of the information in the passage. Choice (A) follows from that portion of the passage in which the author tells you that prisoners see "quality of life" improvements as the result of working. Choice (B) falls completely outside the scope of the passage. The author says nothing about lawsuits challenging prison work programs. Choice (C) distorts the passage. Telemarketing is one of the jobs prisoners perform, but so is manufacturing (and maybe others). Nothing suggests that telemarketing firms have the most to gain from using prison labor. Choice (D) is cited as a concern of some critics, but nothing suggests that the author agrees with them. Nor can you determine whether the author would agree with choice (E). The suggestion in (E) might address the concerns of some critics, but again, you don't know that the author shares those concerns.
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Re: While days of the chain gang are long gone, the effects of meaningful [#permalink] New post   25 Jun 2025, 06:40
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This sentence supports the main claim that is set up in the first sentence: "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." The remainder of the passage contains counterarguments and their supporting evidence.
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