Torture Letters
Torture Letters Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois each week. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge…
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Torture Letters
Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois each week. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens--and that the torturers are the police.
Between 1972 and 1991, at least 125 black suspects were tortured by Chicago police officers working under former Police Commander Jon Burge. Four hundred cases are currently pending investigation. As the more recent revelations from the Homan Square "black site" show, that brutal period is far from a historical anomaly.
For more than fifty years, police officers who took an oath to protect and serve have instead beaten, electrocuted, suffocated, and raped hundreds--perhaps thousands--of Chicago residents.In The Torture Letters, Laurence Ralph chronicles the history of torture in Chicago, the burgeoning