Daniel Taylor Was Innocent. He Spent Decades in Prison Trying to Fix the State’s Mistake.
ProPublica, May 25, 2022: Daniel Taylor Was Innocent. He Spent Decades in Prison Trying to Fix the State’s Mistake.
“When guards first brought Daniel Taylor into a room at the Stateville Correctional Center outside Chicago, we were strangers. It was 2001. I was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. He was an inmate serving a life sentence.
“He had written to me earlier. His was one of the dozen or so letters I’d get from inmates each month — each in an envelope red-stamped with a note saying they were from an inmate at the Illinois Department of Corrections, as if to warn me about their contents. But his letter stood out. He had been convicted of a 1992 double murder, he wrote, but he had records that showed he was in a police station holding cell when the murders were committed.
“Even in Chicago, which was fast becoming known for its miscarriages of justice, it was stunning.”
Additional reading:
Chicago Tribune, May 19, 2022: Man imprisoned for 2 decades after false murder confession, alleged police cover-up in line for $14.5M settlement from city of Chicago
ProPublica, July 3, 2020: The Nation’s First Reparations Package to Survivors of Police Torture Included a Public Memorial. Survivors Are Still Waiting.
The New York Times, September 20, 2018: Jon Burge, 70, Ex-Commander in Chicago Police Torture Cases, Dies
