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Turning Points In Telecommunications History, Paul J. Larkin Jr.
Turning Points In Telecommunications History, Paul J. Larkin Jr.
Paul J Larkin Jr.
The telecom industry is one of the most important sectors of the American economy, and it has undergone massive changes since the days of Alexander Graham Bell. My article offers a light-hearted summary of the Top Ten most important such developments.
Turning Points In Telecommunications History, Paul J. Larkin Jr.
Turning Points In Telecommunications History, Paul J. Larkin Jr.
Paul J Larkin Jr.
The telecom industry is one of the most important sectors of the American economy, and it has undergone massive changes since the days of Alexander Graham Bell. My article offers a light-hearted summary of the Top Ten most important such developments.
Clemency, Parole, Good-Time Credits, And Crowded Prisons: Reconsidering Early Release, Paul J. Larkin Jr.
Clemency, Parole, Good-Time Credits, And Crowded Prisons: Reconsidering Early Release, Paul J. Larkin Jr.
Paul J Larkin Jr.
Traditionally, the criminal justice system used executive clemency, parole statutes, and good-time credit laws to grant prisoners an early relief for various reasons, such as to encourage and reward efforts toward rehabilitation and to ease prison overcrowding. The replacement of rehabilitation with incapacitation as the principal justification for criminal punishment over the last 30 years, however, has resulted in an enormous expansion in the prison population. We need to ask whether we have arrived at a point where an overly punitive approach to corrections is hurting as many innocent parties as helping and whether we are generating more criminals than …