Surviving Chicago Police Torture and Wrongful Imprisonment

Darrell Cannon described in graphic first-hand detail his Nov. 2, 1983 arrest and torture by Chicago detectives (a mock shotgun execution, being hung by handcuffs, and electric cattle prod shocks), which produced the confession that sent him to prison for 24 years, including nine years in solitary at the Tamms supermax. He discussed his failed $3,000 settlement, his 2004 exoneration, ongoing litigation, and his work supervising a CeaseFire site on Chicago's South Side. An SEIU vice president and co-founder of CU Citizens for Peace and Justice introduced him; the Q&A connected the account to the Champaign County jail-expansion fight of the time.