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| Author | : Chicago Torture Victims |
| Publisher | : Balboa Press |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2019-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1982219491 |
The torture ring that operated out of Chicago Police Department Area 2 and 3 headquarters for more than two decades is one of the most terrible and harrowing stories of injustice to take place in my lifetime. Journalists, lawyers and activists played their part in exposing this nightmare, but the victims of police torture themselves did the most to make the truth known, and against steep odds, they were heard. Jon Burge may have never seen the inside of a jail cell like he should have, but thanks in large part to Stanley Howard and the other authors of this book, he will never be remembered as anything other than a monstrous criminal. This book tells the story of police torture in Chicago from the inside—literally—and when you read it, you’ll agree that no one has done a better job of telling all of it. Nothing can ever make up for the injustices these men suffered. But if we can stop this state-sponsored crime from ever happening again, we will have Stanley, Mark, Marvin and Ronnie to thank for it. — Alan Maass, author, The Case for Socialism; editor, SocialistWorker.org Tortured by Blue is not a story about individual survival in the face of horrific circumstances. It is a story about the multitude of individuals (police, prosecutors, judges, elected officials to name a few), practices, and systems that looked the other way and knowingly ALLOWED for the police torture of men and women in Chicago to continue on for decades. With the turn of each page, my rage grew, and with it a commitment to making sure the truths Stanley Howard, Mark Clements, Marvin Reeves and Ronald Kitchen lifts up in their writings are shared widely and result in accountability and substantive change so no individual or family has to go through what the police torture survivors had to experience. —Cindy Eigler, director of policy and strategic initiatives, Chicago Torture Justice Center Swept under the rug for too long, the wrongful convictions and police abuses described in [Torture by Blue] are a very real part of the history of the city of Chicago. Studying that history is crucial to avoiding the mistakes of the past, and [the author’s] deserves considerable credit from pulling it all together. Well -researched and comprehensive in scope, [the author’s] book doses an excellent job of telling this important story. —Jon Lovey, civil rights attorney specializing in police misconduct
| Author | : Mark Clements |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-03-02 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781735886008 |
| Author | : Hadena James |
| Publisher | : Hadena James |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 2013-02-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
When the US Marshals Serial Crimes Tracking Unit comes knocking at Aislinn Cain's door, she is given a chance to use her past to save other people's futures. She has survived attacks by two different serial killers and devoted her life to studying the darker side of human history. A new killer is using medieval torture methods to slay his victims. She can give them a glimpse into his twisted world, but not without a cost. If she opens herself, she risks falling into the depths of her own darkness. Can she afford to help, knowing that the cost could be her own humanity?
| Author | : Lisa Silverman |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2010-06-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0226757528 |
At one time in Europe, there was a point to pain: physical suffering could be a path to redemption. This religious notion suggested that truth was lodged in the body and could be achieved through torture. In Tortured Subjects, Lisa Silverman tells the haunting story of how this idea became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Looking closely at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788, the year in which it was formally abolished, Silverman revisits dossiers compiled in criminal cases, including transcripts of interrogations conducted under torture, as well as the writings of physicians and surgeons concerned with the problem of pain, records of religious confraternities, diaries and letters of witnesses to public executions, and the writings of torture's abolitionists and apologists. She contends that torture was at the center of an epistemological crisis that forced French jurists and intellectuals to reconsider the relationship between coercion and sincerity, or between free will and evidence. As the philosophical consensus on which torture rested broke down, and definitions of truth and pain shifted, so too did the foundation of torture, until by the eighteenth century, it became an indefensible practice.
| Author | : Suzanne E. Lang |
| Publisher | : Suzanne E. Lang |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2017-08-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1988328950 |
She’ll do anything to find her brother, even torture a man for answers—but can she handle it when he decides to return the favor? Steph’s brother has gone missing and she’s found a guy who might have answers, but he’s not coughing up the goods. A little torture will loosen Gavin’s tongue. But when pain doesn’t work, she relies on seduction to get him to talk. Except her plan to tease him into giving her answers backfires, and when Gavin gets loose, he’s out for revenge—and pleasure.
| Author | : Justine Sharrock |
| Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2010-05-20 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 047059313X |
An eye-opening exposé of America's torture regime Myths about torture abound: Waterboarding is the worst we've done. The soldiers were hardened professionals. All Americans now believe that what we did was wrong. Torture is now a thing of the past. Journalist Justine Sharrock's reporting reveals a huge chasm between what has made headlines and what has actually happened. She traveled around the country, talking to the young, low-ranking soldiers that watched our prisoners, documenting what it feels like to torture someone and discovering how many residents of small town America think we should have done a lot more torture. Tortured goes behind the scenes of America's torture program through the personal stories of four American soldiers who were on the frontlines of the "war on terror," including the Abu Ghraib whistleblower. They reveal how their orders came from the top with assurances that those orders were legal and how their experiences left them emotionally scarred and suffering a profound sense of betrayal by the very government for which they fought. Based on the firsthand accounts of young, working-class soldiers who were forced to carry out orders crafted by officers, politicians, and government lawyers who have never answered for their actions The Department of Justice may still launch an investigation into torture under Bush—and Sharrock argues it must be done Describes how it feels to torture, and how people back home reacted to the soldiers' revelations If reading Tortured doesn't make you angry, nothing America does to tarnish its reputation as a beacon of fairness and freedom ever will.
| Author | : Brian Keith Axel |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780822326151 |
A theoretical account of the formation of Sikh diaspora and Sikh nationalism, arguing that the diaspora, rather than originating from the nation, has a major role in the nation's creation.
| Author | : Joseph K. Young |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2020-07-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0231548095 |
Experts in the intelligence community say that torture is ineffective. Yet much of the public appears unconvinced: surveys show that nearly half of Americans think that torture can be acceptable for counterterrorism purposes. Why do people persist in supporting torture—and can they be persuaded to change their minds? In Tortured Logic, Erin M. Kearns and Joseph K. Young draw upon a novel series of group experiments to understand how and why the average citizen might come to support the use of torture techniques. They find evidence that when torture is depicted as effective in the media, people are more likely to approve of it. Their analysis weighs variables such as the ethnicity of the interrogator and the suspect; the salience of one’s own mortality; and framing by experts. Kearns and Young also examine who changes their opinions about torture and how, demonstrating that only some individuals have fixed views while others have more malleable beliefs. They argue that efforts to reduce support for torture should focus on convincing those with fluid views that torture is ineffective. The book features interviews with experienced interrogators and professionals working in the field to contextualize its findings. Bringing empirical rigor to a fraught topic, Tortured Logic has important implications for understanding public perceptions of counterterrorism strategy.
| Author | : Cat Tyrson |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 84 |
| Release | : 2003-06-05 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0595280994 |
These words have a very strange effect, the deeper you go, the more you feel the pain creeping into your soul. Cat Tyrson knows what bothers you, and he isn't afraid to let you know. He says the things that all of us want to say, but just can't seem to spit out. Warning: This collection is not for the meek. It is real horror. It is a journey through one person's Hell, yet all of us go with him. You will never look in a mirror the same way again. For that matter, you may not view your own life the same either. Read it. Then read it slowly. Then read it again. The horror will come straight to the surface. Literally amazing.
| Author | : Penelope Myrtle Kelsey |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2011-11-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1438438036 |
Explores the work of Maurice Kenny, a pivotal figure in American Indian literature from the 1950s to the present.
