The president of the New Jersey Association on Corrections opened the conference by describing its efforts to reintegrate offenders into society and develop alternatives to institutionalization through halfway houses, job training, and lobbying. An administrator from the courts spoke on the proposed legislation authorizing the Governor to continue the executive order allowing the Commissioner of Corrections to use any State or local facility to house State prisoners as long as the counties were reimbursed. A county administrator discussed the effects of these suggestions on the county jail population. Also addressed were proposed alternatives to incarceration, covering problems that intensive supervisory probation could cause for already overburdened probation services, alcohol treatment programs, and a residential drug treatment program for youthful offenders. Speakers explored the impact of mandatory minimum sentences or prison overcrowding, New Jersey's prison overcrowding crisis, the costs of constructing 5,200 new beds, and perceived inadequacies of the construction plans. Discussions with panel speakers are included.