According to a new report from the Sentencing Project, the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Approximately $16 billion a year is spent to incarcerate persons in prisons and jails. This prison crowding takes money away from other domestic programs, such as education, job training, and other programs that could help address the social and economic ills that spawn criminal behavior. In an effort to address the corrections crisis, the American Bar Association has supported alternatives to incarceration, urged that facilities meet constitutional and professional standards, called for adoption of prison and jail impact statements, opposed mandatory minimum sentences, called for efforts to better implement adult and juvenile correctional education programs, and create a Special Committee on the Drug Crisis to consider whether the current approach to the drug crisis is appropriate. This article suggests how local and State bar associations can influence corrections policies in their jurisdictions.