For years, the Chicago Police Department has been trying to move past a shameful chapter characterized by coercion and brutality, shelling out multimillion-dollar settlements to men who were tortured into confessing to serious crimes they didn’t commit.

But as the number of cases linked to disgraced former Police Cmdr. Jon Burge dwindles, a flurry of drug and murder convictions linked to two other former officers has been overturned. And the vindicated inmates are walking out of prison ready to sue.