ABA criminal justice transition recommendations

I just tripped across this ABA webpagetitled “Transition 2008” through which the ABA sets out its recommended “legislative and executive branch actions and initiatives that will improve the justice system, promote the rule of law, ensure the nation’s security, and protect civil liberties.” Specifically, this ABA page has “four separate policy papers summarizing some of the Association’s most significant recommendations for the new administration and the new Congress.”

The transition paper on “Criminal Justice System Improvements ” is available at this link.  Here is how it is described:

The ABA offers recommendations to improve the criminal justice system.  Such recommendations include: alternatives to incarceration; repeal of mandatory minimum sentencing; eliminating sentencing disparities; and enacting prison reform legislation.