Description: "Ronald Kitchen was twenty-one, on his way to buy milk for his four-year-old, when he was picked up by the Chicago police, brutally tortured, and coerced to confess to five counts of heinous murder. He spent twenty-two years in prison, thirteen of those on death row, labeled as a monster. Kitchen was only one of the many victims of Jon Burge and his notorious Midnight Crew that terrorized and incarcerated black men--118 have come forward so far--on the south side of Chicago for nearly two decades. Not one to give up, Kitchen co-founded the Death Row 10 from his maximum security cell block. Together, these men fought to expose the grave injustices that led to their wrongful convictions."--Publisher's description.
Brief description:
Ronald Kitchen was tortured into a false confession and spent two decades in prison on death row. He co-founded the Death Row 10 to fight his conviction and was exonerated in 2013.
Review Quotes:
"Ronald Kitchen's memoir...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"