The symposium illustrated that a significant amount of sentencing reform has occurred at the State level over the past 15 years. In the late 1970's, several States adopted statutory determinate sentencing reforms (California, Colorado, and North Carolina). Beginning in 1980, several States adopted presumptive sentencing guidelines (Minnesota, Washington, Florida, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Kansas). Currently, certain States are evaluating major changes in their sentencing laws (Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah). The symposium examined the focus on Federal sentencing guidelines and the lack of attention to State sentencing reforms, with papers divided into three broad areas: global sentencing reform issues, race and sentencing, and drug sentences. Specific presentations addressed the continued advisability of sentencing commissions and guidelines, discretionary versus determinate sentences, structural issues in sentencing reform, racial disparities and discrimination in sentencing, and drug treatment as a sentencing option. 40 footnotes