In a scathing article published in The American Magazine, J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), sounded the alarm on the widespread practice of the third degree, a brutal and inhumane method of extracting confessions from prisoners through torture and beatings.
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Key Facts
- State: National
- Category: Violent Crime
- Era: Historical
- Source: Library of Congress — Chronicling America ↗
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