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Man freed after 21 years sues Chicago police

A man sent to prison for murder 21 years ago, then released last fall after a key witness recanted, accuses Chicago police in a lawsuit of manipulating the witness and falsifying evidence.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago: The false confession capital

CBS News - 60 Minutes

On Mothers, Mothering and Mass Incarceration

In this Mother’s Day tribute, law professor and advocate Sheila Bedi learns how ‘having a child is like letting your heart walk around outside your body.’

Truthout

Daniel Taylor’s 20-year wrongful prison term

Taylor's exoneration is the 90th in Cook County since 1989. He is the 34th known to have been wrongfully convicted based on an unreliable confession.

ABC7

How Two Newspaper Reporters Helped Free an Innocent Man

Daniel Taylor didn't commit murder — and the author, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, proved it in The Chicago Tribune. But it took the justice system more than a decade to catch up.

The Atlantic

Nebraska Officials to Pay $1.65 Million Settlement for Fabricating Evidence and Coercing False Confession

NEBRASKA – Matthew Livers has settled his civil suit against the Nebraska State Patrol investigators and Cass County, Nebraska, Sheriff’s Deputies for coercing him to confess falsely to the brutal murder of his aunt and uncle and fabricating evidence to make the false charges stick. Under the settlement, Livers will receive a total of $1.65...

Parole Revocation Hearings Result in the Arbitrary Imprisonment of Thousands of Illinoisans, Civil Rights Lawsuit Charges

CHICAGO – People released from state prisons routinely have their constitutional rights violated and are re-imprisoned for alleged parole violations without a fair hearing, access to legal counsel or the ability to cross-examine witnesses and review evidence presented at “sham” hearings, according to a class action lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court against the...

Finance Committee Approves $12.3 Million Settlement With Police Torture Victims Ronald Kitchen and Marvin Reeves

CHICAGO – The Finance Committee of the City of Chicago on Friday approved payment of a $12.3 million settlement to be divided between Ronald Kitchen, a former Death Row prisoner who spent 21 years behind bars, and his co-defendant Marvin Reeves….

Following lead attorney, OPP consent decree case transferred from Southern Poverty to new MacArthur Center

Katie Schwartzmann, the former director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, will take the OPP consent decree case with her as takes a job as co-director of the newly opened New Orleans office of the MacArthur Justice Center.

Nola.com

Sheriff Gusman’s office says Orleans Parish Prison whistleblower now welcome back to work

In an apparent about-face, Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman's office said it was welcoming back to work Deputy Bryan Collins, whose fears of retaliation for being a jailhouse whistleblower were made public.

NOLA.com

Sheriff Gusman’s office levels new accusations against Orleans Parish Prison whistleblower

Bryan Collins, who helped expose rapes, stabbings and poor conditions at the lock-up by secretly providing information for a civil-rights lawsuit that led to federal intervention, could lose his job and face criminal prosecution.

NOLA.com

Orleans Parish Prison whistleblower who helped expose problems fears for his job

Orleans Parish sheriff's deputy Bryan Collins who helped expose rapes, stabbings and poor conditions at the lock-up by secretly providing information for a civil-rights lawsuit that led to federal intervention, could lose his job and face criminal prosecution.

NOLA.com

Orleans Parish Prison medical costs expected to nearly double as consent decree begins, City Council is told

The daily cost of medical care for Orleans Parish Prison inmates is expected to nearly double next year as the jail begins implementing a federal consent decree aimed at addressing constitutional violations.

NOLA.com

Following lead attorney, OPP consent decree case transferred from Southern Poverty to new MacArthur Center

Katie Schwartzmann, the former director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, will take the OPP consent decree case with her as takes a job as co-director of the newly opened New Orleans office of the MacArthur Justice Center.

The Times-Picayune

OPP whistleblower offered new assignment at jail as threat of prosecution lingers

Bryan Collins, who came forward as a whistleblower said he has not accepted the position the SheriffAAC/AAAAs Office offered him as a kitchen door guard because the Sheriff's Office refuses to tell him whether he is still under criminal investigation.

NOLA.com