The standards include four major proposals. First, every jurisdiction should establish a permanent sentencing commission or equivalent agency. Second, the agency should create determinate sentencing provisions to guide the use of discretion by sentencing courts. Third, the legislature and agency should design the sentencing system so that aggregate sentences are matched with correctional resources. Fourth, the legislature and agency should expand the use of sanctions other than imprisonment. In the ABA's view, sentencing should operate as a system rather than as a series of ad hoc decisions by judges and parole officials. The drafting history of the standards reveals several recurring and reassuring features of the ABA's long process of developing an agenda for sentencing reform. Footnotes