After a nearly yearlong review, the ABA Justice Kennedy Commission concluded
that America's criminal justice systems rely too heavily on incarceration
and need to consider other, more effective alternatives.
In October 2003, ABA President Dennis Archer formed the ABA Justice Kennedy
Commission to review the "inadequacies - and the injustices - in
our prison and correctional systems" identified in a speech to the
2003 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco by U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Anthony M. Kennedy.
The recommendations were adopted as Association policy at the 2004 ABA
Annual Meeting in Atlanta.
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