Chicago
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FREE VINCENT HILL!
A letter from Vincent from inside Cook County Jail Hello My Name is Vincent Hill. I recently received a newsletter from Dare to Struggle. Thank you for taking time out your day to reach out to me, as I’m eager to tell my story in the hope of it helping my family. It has been…
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A Letter to the Outside
Inmates write about conditions at CCJ The following is a letter sent to Dare to Struggle – Chicago from a group of inmates inside Cook County Jail’s Division 11. Inmates have requested the letter be published in full to further expose conditions inside the jail and the problems people inside are facing. We salute them…
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DCFS: Department of Child Abuse and Family Separation
Children abandoned in dingy juvenile cells amidst a mental health crisis, left to rot in fluorescent-lit cubicle offices overnight with strangers, dumped in emergency rooms and deprieved of access to adequate medical care, and cuffed in full-body shackles as they are displaced from one facility to another with little explanation—all while awaiting placement in foster…
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When they eat their own
On June 5th, Krystal Rivera was gunned down by a fellow pig in the Chicago Police Department (CPD). According to the cops, Rivera and her partner, Carlos Baker, were conducting an “investigatory stop” (CPD’s new age term for stop and frisk) in the southside Chatham neighborhood when a suspect took off on foot and ran inside…
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Cracks at Hotel California: What happened to Attica?
A call to action from Dare to Struggle – Chicago For more than 6 months now, Dare to Struggle – Chicago has been going out to Cook County Jail, talking with inmates and their loved ones about the horrors behind its walls. The conditions people are forced to endure are deplorable. Food and water that…
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“This is WAR.”
New York Inmates Who Exposed Messiah Nantwi’s Murder Wrote to Dare to Struggle – ChicagoDrawings sent to us by M Cleaver On March 15th, Dare to Struggle – Chicago wrote letters to inmates at the Midstate Correctional Facility in New York who spokeout to expose the brutal murder of 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi at the hands…
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“Well we’re hiring”: SA Survivors Demand Justice and the CPD Pigs Offer Recruitment
Last night, Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) 14th District and Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS) hosted a a community beat meeting at a local church in Humboldt Park: a recurring farce performed by CPD once a month at each Chicago Police district to feign rapport between the pigs and the people. Over 160 people attended this…
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Justice for Timothy Glaze! No More Stolen Lives!
Timothy Glaze was murdered by CPD on January 3rd, 2025. This statement was given at a protest outside the 10th district police precinct which employs his killers on January 8th. When I think of how Timothy Glaze was executed by CPD pigs and taken from his loved ones in the early hours of January 3rd,…
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Lipstick on a Pig
THE MYTH OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY IN CHICAGO On November 7, 2024, the Chicago Alliance Against Racial & Political Repression (CAARPR) held a “Day After the Election Rally” in downtown Chicago to protest the incoming Trump presidency. In front of a crowd of hundreds, one of the speakers, CAARPR-backed Police District Councilor Anthony Bryant, declared to…
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January 3rd Memorial for Alteriq Pleasant
Alteriq would be celebrating his 30th birthday this day, but he died in the custody of Cook County Jail after experiencing a medical emergency. Alteriq should still be here along with so many more. Learn more from an interview with his mother, Vicki Willis, here.
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