Media Curation
Media Curation
This is a curated list of media coverage, republished with permission from The Marshall Project, along with articles from The Chicago Defender archives.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
The FBI on Thursday made public hundreds of pages of previously confidential documents from its unsuccessful investigation decades ago of torture ...
John Conroy on the Death of Jon Burge: Chicago’s Sad Legacy of Police Torture
WBEZ.ORG
Michael Goldston, who authored the first government report documenting a pattern of abuse under former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge, has been ca ...
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Corey Batchelor has been out of prison for more than a decade, but he is still trying to prove his innocence in a 1989 murder.
IN THESE TIMES
A history of the movement to make Chicago pay for the crimes of former police commander Jon Burge.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
In a dramatic moment Wednesday, the Chicago City Council rose to acknowledge victims of torture at the hands of former police Cmdr. Jon Burge be ...
CHICAGO REPORTER
Human rights practices inform Chicago ordinance in police torture case Chicago became the first city in the nation to approve reparations for victims of police torture when the City Council passed an ordinance includi ...
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mayor Rahm Emanuel seeks closure with a reparations package, but another police shooting is still fresh in the public’s mind.
CHICAGO SUNTIMES
When crimes of heinous proportions are committed, it is not possible to fully compensate the victims.
USA TODAY
CHICAGO — Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on Tuesday that the city has reached an agreement to provide a sweeping package of reparations to the victims…