Question

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.

–Just Mercy,
Bryan Stevenson

Which detail from Just Mercy best supports the idea that mass incarceration affects people who have not been convicted of a crime?

“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.”

Answer 1

“We ban poor women and, inevitably, their children from receiving food stamps and public housing if they have prior drug convictions.”

This detail explicitly shows that children (who have not been convicted) are harmed by policies tied to someone else’s conviction.