Illinois Needs a Clean Slate—Because We Can’t Define People by Their Worst Days - R Street Institute

Illinois Needs a Clean Slate—Because We Can’t Define People by Their Worst Days - R Street Institute

If clean slate laws had existed in the past, Susan B. Anthony, César Chávez, and Martin Luther King Jr. might have had their records sealed. Each of these iconic figures was arrested for actions we now celebrate as morally courageous. Anthony was convicted in 1872 for the crime of voting while female, defying the law but... The post Illinois Needs a Clean Slate—Because We Can’t Define People by Their Worst Days appeared first on R Street Institu…