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- Book Title
- My Midnight Years : Surviving Jon Burge&Apos;S Police Torture Ring and Death Row
- Publication Name
- My Midnight Years
- Title
- My Midnight Years
- Subtitle
- Surviving Jon Burge's Police Torture Ring and Death Row
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9781613737668
- ISBN
- 9781613737668
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Law, Political Science
- Release Date
- 01/08/2018
- Release Year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 19.4 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Topic
- Judicial Power, General, Law Enforcement, Criminals & Outlaws, Political Freedom
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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In the Margins Book Award Winner Ronald Kitchen was walking to buy cookies for his young son on a summer evening in 1988 when Chicago detectives picked him up for questioning. As the officers' car headed toward the precinct, the twenty-two-year-old called out the window to his family, "I'll be back in forty-five minutes." It took him twenty-one years to make it home. Kitchen was beaten and tortured by notorious police commander Jon Burge and his cronies until finally confessing to a gruesome quintuple homicide he did not commit. Convicted of murder and sentenced to die, he spent the next two decades in prison--including a dozen years on death row--before at last winning his release and exoneration. Written with passion and defiance, My Midnight Years is more than just a memoir--because Ronald Kitchen's ordeal is not his alone. Kitchen was only one of scores of victims of Jon Burge and his notorious Midnight Crew, a group of rogue police detectives who spent decades terrorizing, brutalizing, and incarcerating men--118 have come forward so far--in Chicago's African American communities. Overcoming overwhelming difficulties, Kitchen cofounded the Death Row 10 from his maximum security cellblock. Together, these men fought to expose the grave injustices that led to their wrongful convictions. The Death Row 10 appeared on 60 Minutes II, Nightline, Oprah, and Geraldo Rivera and, with the help of lawyers and activists, were instrumental in turning the tide against the death penalty in Illinois. Kitchen was finally exonerated in 2009 and filed a high-profile lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department, Jon Burge, Mayor Richard Daley, and the Cook County state's attorney. Kitchen's story is outrageous and heartbreaking. Largely absent from social justice narratives are the testimonies of the victims themselves. The atrocities of the Midnight Crew were brought to light through Kitchen's actions, and he is a rare survivor who has turned his suffering into a public cause. He is poised to become a powerful spokesperson who will play a major part in the ongoing discussion of institutional racism.
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1613737661
ISBN-13
9781613737668
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242604261
Product Key Features
Book Title
My Midnight Years : Surviving Jon Burge&Apos;S Police Torture Ring and Death Row
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Judicial Power, General, Law Enforcement, Criminals & Outlaws, Political Freedom
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Law, Political Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv8701.K57a3 2018
Reviews
"Ronald Kitchen not only survived his prison ordeal but describes his experience in moving detail; he has emerged as a strong spokesman against the atrocities of Jon Burge and his Midnight Crew." --JEFFREY HAAS, author of The Assassination of Fred Hampton, "Ronald Kitchen's memoir of surviving and resisting racist police torture and thirteen years on death row is maddening and moving. It's hard to read and hard to put down. . . . The full rot of the criminal injustice system is on display here, but Ronnie's stark prose makes us also see the courage and resilience of those on the inside." --MARTHA BIONDI, author of The Black Revolution on Campus and To Stand and Fight, "Decades of police torture and prosecutorial complicity devastated black Chicago and filled Illinois's prisons. In this moving memoir, Ronald Kitchen chronicles what that violence meant for him, his family, and so many others. . . . Don't miss this harrowing, heartbreaking tale of injustice, survival, and resistance." --DAN BERGER, author of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, "Ronald Kitchen's story is scalding, emotional, and ultimately redemptive--a descent into hell with a happy ending. My Midnight Years should be read by all Americans, but especially those who still live in denial about police corruption and institutional racism. Read this book, then pass it on to a friend, neighbor, sibling, or coworker; it will open eyes and raise the ire of anyone who cares about criminal justice in the United States." --T. J. ENGLISH, author of The Savage City , The Corporation , and Havana Nocturne
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2017-055722
Dewey Decimal
364.66092
Dewey Edition
23
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