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Jon Graham Burge (December 20, 1947 – September 19, 2018) was an American police detective and commander in the Chicago Police Department. He was found guilty of lying about "directly participat[ing] in or implicitly approv[ing] the torture" of at least 118 people in police custody in order to force false confessions .
The Chicago Police Board fired Jon Burge and suspended Detective John Yucaitis for 15 months on charges of torturing and physically abusing Andrew Wilson. 1998 Torture survivors on Illinois's death row began to organize, dubbing themselves The Death Row 10.
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that former Chicago Police Department Commander Jon Burge, 63, of Apollo Beach, Fla., was sentenced to 54 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for lying in a deposition in a civil case about torture and abuse of suspects by Chicago Police Department officers.
Jon Burge, the former Chicago police commander whose reported torture of criminal suspects cost the city more than $100 million in legal fees and reparations and prompted the governor to pardon...
Jon Burge joined the Chicago Police Department in 1970, serving in various investigative posts and as commander from 1986 until his firing in 1993. He was convicted in 2010 of lying about the...
Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and his crew tortured false confessions out of hundreds of black men. Decades later, the survivors fought for reparations.
New ‘Chicago Police Torture Archive’ details acts of Jon Burge and underlings. The new site, launched by the Invisible Institute, includes profiles and interviews with numerous victims of Burge and his “midnight crew.” Scores of court transcripts, depositions, media clips and photos are also included in the archive. By Sam Charles.
The Chicago Police Torture Archive is a human rights documentation of former Commander Jon Burge’s violence against more than 100 Black men, from the 1970s-1990s. The journalistic centerpiece of this site are the profiles of police torture survivors, most of whom were represented by the People’s Law Office of Chicago.
One of the most documented movements against police violence and torture occurred in Chicago over the span of 30 years. Under the command of Chicago Police Department (CPD) Commander Jon Burge, over 120 people, predominantly African-American men, were tortured from 1972-1991.
The Chicago Police Torture Archive is a human rights documentation of former police Cmdr. Jon Burge’s violence against more than 100 Black people, from the 1970s to the 1990s.