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Chicago-Vindication for police torture victims

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Vindication for police torture victims By Marlene Martin Marlene Martin of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty remembers the long struggle to win justice for victims of Chicago police torturers--a struggle that led to the guilty verdict this week in a federal trial of the torture ringleader, former police Lt. Jon Burge. July 1, 2010 Socialist Worker ACTIVISTS IN Chicago got the word Monday afternoon in a phone message from police torture victim Mark Clements. "The jury has reached a verdict in the Jon Burge trial," Mark announced. "He was found guilty on all three counts--of lying under oath and two counts of obstruction of justice. Come down to the Dirksen Federal Building right away for the demonstration." Mark, who spent 28 years of his life in prison for a crime he didn't commit, had been waiting at the federal court building in downtown Chicago since early in the morning, anticipating a decision in the trial of Burge, the former Chicago police lieutenant who led a ring of cops that tortured African American suspects in the 1970s and '80s...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 02, 2010 (boomark / email).