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" Spider-Man really does help fight crime! Back in 1977, a New Mexico judge named Jack Love was reading the funny pages when he came across a Spider-Man comic strip, in which the nefarious Kingpin used a bracelet to track the wall crawler&amp;#039;s whereabouts. The comic struck a chord with Love, who saw a potential solution to overcrowded prisons, hoping that electronic monitoring technology could ease the burden on what he called &amp;quot;practically intolerable&amp;quot; jails. Love, now 80 and a criminal justice blogger, began developing the idea in earnest in 1982. A year later, with the help of a computer salesman named Mike Gross, Love tested the first bracelet on himself. Soon after, the bracelet was used on four prisoners and slowly grew in popularity.  Okay, so Love&amp;#039;s brainchild wasn&amp;#039;t exactly original--the idea for electronic monitoring had been around for eight decades, going back to work by the Army Signal Corps in World War I. And while prototypes of devices used to communicate between prisoners and probation officers had already been developed by the 1970s, it took the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man to finally make this dream a reality. See the government report highlighting Judge Love&amp;#039;s accomplishment. Visit Judge Jack Love&amp;#039;s blog. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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