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In the Margins Book Award Winner Ronald Kitchen was walking to buy cookies for his young son on a summer evening in 1988 when Chicago detectives picked him up for questioning. As the officers'car headed toward the precinct, the twenty-two-year-old called out the window to his family,'I'll be back in forty-five minutes.'It took him twenty-one years to make it home. Kitchen was beaten and tortured by notorious police commander Jon Burge and his cronies until finally confessing to a gruesome quintuple homicide he did not commit. Convicted of murder and sentenced to die, he spent the next two decades in prison—including a dozen years on death row—before at last winning his release and exoneration. Written with passion and defiance, My Midnight Years is more than just a memoir—because Ronald Kitchen's ordeal is not his alone. Kitchen was only one of scores of victims of Jon Burge and his notorious Midnight Crew, a group of rogue police detectives who spent decades terrorizing, brutalizing, and incarcerating men—118 have come forward so far—in Chicago's African American communities. Overcoming overwhelming difficulties, Kitchen cofounded the Death Row 10 from his maximum security cellblo

Author

Ronald Kitchen,Ronald Kitchen,Thai Jones, Logan M. McBride

Publisher

Lawrence Hill Books

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781613737699

Subjects

Memoir, True Crime, Social Science

Rating

4.8 / 5 (21 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14