It is no surprise that ex-cons have a high unemployment rate compared to the average member of society. A full refutation of his argument would give an analysi

It is no surprise that ex-cons have a high unemployment rate compared to the average member of society. A full refutation of his argument would give an analysis of the number of ex-cons, their unemployment rate, the hypothetical unemployment rate based on the assumption that the US's current prison stock were diminished to that of Europe, and demonstration that US unemployment numbers would be higher than Europe's in this case. You have made the motions of charitably interpreting the author's argument without actually doing so.