Alliance for Safety and Justice (ASJ), the nation’s largest public safety reform organization, and its flagship program, TimeDone, released findings today from its groundbreaking national survey of Americans with a past record of arrest or conviction. Voices of Redemption: A National Survey of People with Old Records highlights a systemic crisis that perpetuates cycles of crime and harms our collective safety when people are blocked from healing and redemption.

The nation has been watching the state of Illinois struggle with an increase in prison expenditures, an increase in violence in Chicago, and an increase in the number of victims needing treatment and trauma recovery.