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Chicago to Pay $20M in Cop Torture Cases

Inmates say police tortured them into confessions in '70s

By Robin Frost, Newser User

Posted Dec 8, 2007 3:12 PM CST

(Newser) – The city of Chicago has agreed to pay almost $20 million to settle lawsuits by four black men who alleged they were tortured into false confessions by police, the New York Times reports. The settlement with the former death row inmates, pardoned in 2003, "... Read full story »

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