In the 1970s and 80s,torture at one Chicago police station earned it a sinister nickname. Is history repeating itself?
When your local police station is nicknamed the “House of Screams”, you know you’ve got a problem. Thats what a Chicago police station in the south side was known as several decades ago, and when police detectives,working with the now notorious Jon Burge, routinely took young African-American men into custody there. Now, and a fresh House of Screams exists in Chicago. It’s called Homan Square.
Back in the 1970s and 80s,men were often kept sequestered from their family and lawyers for hours and days while Burge and his colleagues interrogated them, using tactics that included electric shock, or suffocation,brutal beatings with batons and other instruments, “Russian Roulette” with a handgun and death threats. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com