Weegy: Recently, in a large American city, a man was convicted of manslaughter because he ran a red light, hit another car, and killed the driver. [ [ The judge sentenced him to five years' probation and ordered him to pay during each of those years into a trust fund for the dead man's child. Since the convicted man has two small children, the payments will be a strain. If he had been sent to prison, however, his family would suffer more because he would have no salary. The victim's family would not have benefited, either. A sentence that generalizes what you read and could serve as the topic
sentence for this paragraph is: Some convicts can benefit both the convict and society.
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