Speakers included scholars, judges, a prosecutor, a public defender, a correctional administrator, and reform advocates. They discussed recent trends in United States Supreme Court decisions, sentencing policies, prison control, and the status of the death penalty in Illinois. Comments focused on the wavering and incoherence of the Supreme Court in its decisions regarding criminal procedures, the court's lack of a core vision of society, the applicability of the bail clause of the Eighth Amendment to the States, and the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule. The presentations also examined the purpose and effects of capital punishment, the use of prison lockdowns in prison control, and judicial decisions regarding the death penalty in Illinois.