Answer No 1)
The correct option is D) The justice system does not provide equally or appropriately fair punishments and disproportionately mistreats people of color.
Explanation:
The article written by Bobby Constantino in 2013 clearly reflects that even after so much struggle, discrimination on the basis of colour is still very common in America. The article reflects that how a white person is ignored by even the police when he is doing something wrong and how the black Americans are unfairly treated by the police officers in America.
Answer No 2)
The correct option is D) “Some time later the door swung open and a CO led three more men into our cell. Eighteen men were now sitting and lying feet to head, or feet to feet, along the length of the bench and floor.”
Explanation:
Bobby Constantino observed that even inside the jail, the black people were treated far badly than the white people. The author describes that how he witnessed a police officer bringing black men in a dirty cell in huge numbers. The cell did not have enough space for all of them yet they lay above each other along the length of the bench and floor.
Answer No 3)
The correct option is C) The author describes the officers as more reluctant to confront him, a white man in a suit, than when they interacted with people of color.
Explanation:
The author tries to tell his readers that while doing the crimes, he preferred to dress in a suit. His colour and his appearance was the reason that the police officers were so reluctant to confront him. On the other hand, the police officers readily confronted the Black Americans or the African Americans even when they had done nothing wrong.
Answer No 4)
The correct option is C) “Each time, the guards saw a young professional in a suit, not the suspect they had in mind, and each time they handed me back my license and turned me away.”
Explanation:
In part A, the author explains how his appearance and colour made the police officer or the guards reluctant to confront him. He explains this event again when he encounters the guards. The author described how the guards let him go for a number of days just because he wasn't a black coloured person. If in his place, an African American would have committed the crime he would have been given severe punishment and would have been mistreated.
Answer No 5)
The author exposes how the justice system treats people unequally by comparing his own experiences with his observations of others’.
Explanation:
In order to understand the justice system, the author decided to observe and experience the judicial system on his own. The author exposes how he, being a white person, was treated with such leniency even though when he broke certain laws. H e also observed that how the people who did not have white colour were treated brutally by the police officers and the judicial system.