From a conference held at John Jay College on September 4, 2014 entitled How Do We Significantly Reduce Our Prisons? The NRC Report and Its implications for New York. In this panel the committee comments upon the NRC Report. Panelists include Glenn C. Loury, Department of Economics, Brown University; Lawrence M. Mead, Department of Politics, New York University; Khalil Gibran Mohammed, Director, Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City Library; Josiah D. Rich, Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, Brown University; and Heather Ann Thompson, Department of history at Temple University. The panel is moderated by Nicholas Turner, Executive Director, Vera Institute of Justice.