A former top police official at the center of the Chicago prison torture scandal has been arrested on charges of lying under oath. Retired Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge was detained at his home in Tampa, Florida. For nearly twenty years, a part of Chicago’s jails known as Area 2 was the epicenter for what has been described as the systematic torture of dozens of African American males by Chicago police officers. More than 135 people say they were subjected to abuse, including having guns forced into their mouths, bags places over their heads, and electric shocks inflicted to their genitals. Four men have been released from death row after government investigators concluded torture led to their wrongful convictions. Burge has been charged with two counts of obstruction of justice and one count of perjury. It’s the first time he’s been charged in the case. Burge was fired in 1993 but still receives a yearly police pension. Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald says his office continues to probe allegations of torture and abuse at the Chicago prisons.