Reading List

Below is a list of recommended books for further understanding of the Chicago Police torture cases. Visit our partners at Build Coffee to purchase the books and support a local bookseller on the South Side of Chicago.

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Beyond the Usual Beating: The Jon Burge Police Torture Scandal and Social Movements for Police Accountability in Chicago

Andrew S. Baer

My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge's Police Torture Ring and Death Row

Ronald Kitchen (Author), Thai Jones (Author), Logan McBride (Author)

The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago

Flint Taylor

My Kind of Town

A Play by John Conroy

The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom

Edited by Alice Kim, Erica Meiners, Jill Petty, Audrey Petty, Beth E. Richie, and Sarah Ross

Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States

Edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price

Tortured by Blue: The Chicago Police Torture Story

Mark Clements, Marvin Reeves, Ronald Kitchen, in collaboration with Stanley Howard