Resources

• Read the Credit for Change Bill!

• Katie Schulder-Battis “Truth-in-sentencing costs Illinois thousands of years- and billions of dollars,”  The Chicago Reporter, February 19, 2026,

• Katie Schulder-Battis “Advocates Push to Expand Earned Sentence Credits” The Chicago Reporter, March 5, 2026

• Alliance for Safety and Justice and Unify.US Earned Sentence Credits: A Smart Public Safety Strategy to Reduce Crime and Save Taxpayer Dollars January 2026

• Impact for Equity, The Case for Retroactive Criminal Sentencing Reforms: A Legal Memo August 2026

• Vera Institute of Justice, Summary of National Survey of States’ Earned and Good Time Earning Options, Focusing on States That Have Few Offense-Based Exclusions  May 2026

• Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council “Truth in Sentencing 101” 2025

• Loyola Chicago Center for Criminal Justice, Truth in Sentencing and Illinois Prisons, March 2025

• Justice “Listen to their Stories:  These Crime Survivors Don’t Want More Punishment”  October 2025