{"id":114,"date":"2008-07-18T16:40:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T21:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/2008\/07\/18\/torture-in-cook-county\/"},"modified":"2008-07-18T16:54:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T21:54:24","slug":"torture-in-cook-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/2008\/07\/18\/torture-in-cook-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Torture in Cook County, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Routine abuse by guards, horrendous conditions, and serious mismanagement at the Cook County Jail in Chicago, according to a federal report (<a href=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/packages\/pdf\/national\/Cook_County_Jail_Findings_Letter.pdf\" title=\"Federal report on Cook County Jail\">link<\/a>; p. 10-18 especially) released today.<\/p>\n<p>Death threats, beatings, discrimination, intimidation, severe head trauma, amputations for lack of medical treatment, you name it.   Torture in Barack Obama&#8217;s home state.  What will be his response?<\/p>\n<p><u>Excerpts from the scathing Jul. 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/packages\/pdf\/national\/Cook_County_Jail_Findings_Letter.pdf\">report<\/a><\/u>: (see also, NYTimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/18\/us\/18cook.html?em&amp;ex=1216526400&amp;en=0fd5af153b22e24b&amp;ei=5087%0A\">report<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/packages\/pdf\/national\/Cook_County_Jail_Findings_Letter.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/files\/2008\/07\/excerpts-cook-county-federal-report-july-2008.jpg\" alt=\"Excerpts from the Federal report on Cook County Jail\" height=\"1800\" width=\"742\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Routine abuse by guards, horrendous conditions, and serious mismanagement at the Cook County Jail in Chicago, according to a federal report (link; p. 10-18 especially) released today. Death threats, beatings, discrimination, intimidation, severe head trauma, amputations for lack of medical treatment, you name it. Torture in Barack Obama&#8217;s home state. What will be his response? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[650,1131,1141,2155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-international-law","category-torture","category-us-law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stoptorture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}