Former Prisoners Challenge the Legacy of Torture in Chicago Jails

Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at 04:19AM
TheSpook

The Dominican Community Human Rights League issued a letter to Attorney General John Aschroft and to Gov. Sila Calderon requesting them to investigate the case of a convicted Dominican citizen who was killed in June. Group spokesman, Saul Perez, said fellow countryman Delby Rodriguez Breton died under "suspicious" circumstances at Las Cucharas prison complex of Ponce after being sentenced to 171 years in prison for murder. Perez said that a sworn statement proves that Rodriguez Brenton did not murder Puerto Rican Luca Guerra Valle on June 2, 1996. [more]

Article originally appeared on (http://brownwatch.com/).