Many of them were put on the books as we decided that we needed to get tough on crime in the 1980s and the early 1990s.
Danny Davis: “Many of them were put on the books as we decided that we needed to get tough on crime in the 1980s and the early 1990s.”
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Davis reflects on the origins of strict licensure requirements for felons.
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