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New Report Exposes Govermental Failure in Dealing With Torture Cases

News posted on Oct 28th, 2008

A coaltion including People’s Law Office has released a new report on the continued failure of goverment officials to adequately address the Chicago Police torture scandal.  Below are two news stories on regarding the report, as well as a copy of the report and its appendix.

 

Madigan Faces Pressure to Examine Torture Victim Cases  Chicago Public Radio

Coalition Calls for Post-Conviction Hearings for Torture Cases  WBBM Chicago

 

The men in the photo above are four of the torture survivors (from left to right, Darrell Cannon, Anthony Holmes, Gregory Banks and David Bates).  People’s Law Office has represented all four men.  (Photo taken by Zbigniew Bzdak.)

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