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February 26, 2015

The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site’ (Homan Square)

Spencer Ackerman, The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site’. The Guardian, 24 February 2015. “The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.”

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February 26, 2015 Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Ethics, Law, Police Brutality, Prisons/Jails, Racism Tagged With: andrea lyon, brian jacob church (one of the 'nato three'), chicago justice project, chicago police abuse, chicago's homan square 'black site', civil-rights lawyer flint taylor, john hubbard, national lawyers guild, rob warden (founder of northwestern university law school's center on wrongful convictions, sarah gelsomino, tracy siska, victoria suter