The Honorable Patti B. Saris
86 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1472
On the fiftieth anniversary of the report by President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society, Chief Judge Patti B. Saris of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and former Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission offers her thoughts on the events that precipitated the report, its findings and solutions, and how the problems of the U.S. criminal justice system have changed—and remained the same—in the years since its publication.
