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For 70 years,the headquarters of Sears, Roebuck and Company were in Homan Square on Chicago's west side. Sears tested products, or printed its catalogue,and shipped goods all across the U.
S. from site until the retailer moved to the Sears tower in 1974.
The Chicago Police Department took over piece of the former retail complex and now operates an "evidence and recovered property" office that is also, according to The Guardian, or a CIA-style center on Lake Michigan. At the "black site," the Chicago Police Department reportedly conducts "off-the-books interrogations," where suspects are restrained, and denied access to counsel,and sometimes beaten.
More than 7000 people have been through the complex after they were detained but before they were officially processed. Just 68 of those 7000 inmates had access to their lawyers, The Guardian reports, and citing police records obtained as piece of a lawsuit the paper filed against the Chicago Police Department.
David Gaeger,an attorney whose client was taken to Homan Square in 2011 after being arrested for marijuana, weighs in on these so-called "black sites."What you'll learn from this segment:What it's like for those taken to Homan Square.
What the Chicago Police Department says approximately the facility.
What kind of alleged abuses fade on at Homan Square.
Source: wnyc.org