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In May of 1929 President Hoover established the National Commission On Law Observance and Enforcement, later to become known as the Wickersham Commission after its chairman George W. Wickersham. A former attorney general in the Hoover cabinet, Wickersham was joined on the commission by a select group of judges, sociologists, educators, and distinguished lawyers. Their task was a formidable one: to investigate conditions and study all facets of the administration of justice throughout the nation's jails, prisons, courts, and prosecutorial offices, and to report their findings to the president and the public. Eleven subcommittees were formed to facilitate the commission's work and to expedite the collection and analysis of an enormous amount of information.
The best known of the commission's final reports, one of fourteen volumes completed and presented to the president in 1931, concerned Prohibition. It was also the most controversial, drawing much criticism...
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