Dozens of convicted criminals say they were tortured by Chicago police officers. [Illinois] Attorney General Lisa Madigan is supposed to be re-examining those cases. She got that charge after a judge decided the Cook County State’s Attorney is too wrapped up in the cases to review them. That was five years ago – and yet many are still serving long sentences based on evidence they say was extracted through beatings, suffocation and electric shocks.
Chicago Public Radio contributor John Conroy has been covering this story for many years and joins Eight Forty-Eight with the latest.
Dori Dinsmore, Director of the Midwest Regional Office of Amnesty International, is a commentator on this segment. Amnesty International's Midwest Office is a memberr of the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights.
