With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO), Taylor has
argued landmark civil rights cases that have exposed corruption and
cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout
the city's corrupt political machine. The Torture Machine takes the
reader from the 1969 murders of Black Panther Party chairman Fred
Hampton and Panther Mark Clark-and the historic, thirteen-years of
litigation that followed-through the dogged pursuit of commander
Jon Burge, the leader of a torture ring within the CPD that used
barbaric methods, including electric shock, to elicit false
confessions from suspects. Joining forces with community activists,
torture survivors and their families, other lawyers, and local
reporters, Taylor and the PLO gathered evidence from multiple cases
to bring suit against the CPD officers and the City of Chicago. As
the struggle expanded beyond the torture scandal to the ultimately
successful campaign to end the death penalty in Illinois, and
obtained reparations for many of the torture survivors, it set
human rights precedents that have since been adopted across the
United States.
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