Former Chicago police commander Jon Burge has reported to a North Carolina prison to begin serving a four-and-a-half-year sentence for obstruction of justice and lying about torturing prisoners into making confessions. Burge was convicted in June following longtime accusations of overseeing the systematic torture of more than a hundred African American men. His trial was criticized as being too lenient by focusing not on the torture itself, but for lying about it. As Burge’s sentence begins, one of those prisoners allegedly tortured under his watch is being released after 25 years behind bars. The prisoner, Eric Caine, confessed to a murder after what he calls torture by Burge’s officers.