Posted on December 11, 2007 by jamesptaylor
A bit of hometown news, from Democracy Now, 12/10/2007:
The city of Chicago has agreed to pay nearly $20 million to four former death row prisoners who gave false confessions after being tortured by Chicago police. The four men are all African-American. They sued former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and more than 20 officers who [...]
Filed under: Current Events, Struggle for Rights | Tagged: Chicago, torture | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 11, 2007 by jamesptaylor
From ABC News:
A Houston woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the US government are covering up the incident.
Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a [...]
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