Amnesty International: Tasers kill
An Amnesty International study of deaths in U.S. from police use of Tasers — which reviewed the autopsy of one of the four Chicagoans who have died after being shocked by police — says the weapon...
View ArticleTorture: Chicago, Colombia
Burge torture victim Darrell Cannon will be joined by DePaul University’s Father Memo Campuzano, who will talk about his experiences of torture in Colombia, at a program sponsored by several DePaul...
View ArticleSatire and torture
Barbara Ehrenreich is dismayed that a UK resident was tortured and held for years in Guantanamo after admitting to reading an old article she wrote on how to make an atomic bomb. The article, published...
View ArticleJustice delayed
When two men were released from prison on July 7, 21 years after they were falsely convicted in a quintuple murder, several questions were raised: Why did it take Attorney General Lisa Madigan six...
View ArticleTortured justice
Will Attorney General Lisa Madigan agree to a new trial for the latest Illinois inmate claiming a wrongful conviction based on a coerced confession ? Michael Tillman, who’s been in prison for 23 years...
View ArticleTorture at Tamms
“The pattern of suicide, cutting, depression and hallucination at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib is repeated at Tamms,” Northwestern Professor Stephen Eisenman, author of the book “The Abu Ghraib Effect,” tells...
View ArticleSix years
The Tribune reports that Ronald Kitchen and Marvin Reeves, two victims of Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge’s torture ring, received certificates of innocence yesterday, but a couple salient facts...
View ArticleConroy’s play at Northwestern
The Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern is presenting a staged reading of “My Kind of Town,” John Conroy’s play about the Chicago police torture scandal, Monday, March 8 at 6 p.m. at Thorne...
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