ABSTRACT
The American Civil Liberties Unions (ACLU's) interest in criminal issues extends only to criminals can be seen quite clearly in the way it approaches the rights of the victims of crime. The ACLU's policy on "Sentencing" is the clearest statement of the Union's antipathy to punishing criminals. The ACLU's disposition toward crime and punishment, it is only fitting that it would take aggressive stand on prisoners' rights. The ACLU is against capital punishment, for to do so would mask the vast amount of resources the organization expends annually to halt executions. The nightmare of drugs, and the violence it spawns, is known everywhere in the United States, but nowhere is the problem more serious than in the nation's inner cities. The family has more to do with crime control than the law, and much the same could be said of the schools and churches.
