Why Has the U

question 49

Multiple Choice

Why has the U.S. prison system been compared to slavery?

• A) Black men are jailed disproportionately to their rate of criminality, and they are used as laborers in prison.
• B) The rate of prison escapes is similar to the number of escapes from slavery.
• C) In prison, labor is seen as a way to reform criminals before releasing them, just as slavery was seen as a way to reform enslaved people before freeing them.
• D) Slavery was ignored by most white people, just as most free people today ignore those in prisons.

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