On the social justice front I think that for Jon Burge there needs to be a MAJOR scandal that not only sees someone exonerated, but also lays bare the full scale of both the corruption and depravity.
There’s a real case (Kevin Cooper in CA), where there’s a pretty strong likelihood he’s innocent but a lot of vested interest in upholding the system means he’s still on death row (a law firm hired to do an independent investigation limited their review to documents presented at trial despite a.) acknowledging that it was important to examine all documents in the state’s possession and b.) actually having subpoena power to twist the state’s arm if they had truly wanted. The guy they had to evaluate claims of evidence tampering was also close friends with the guy Cooper accused of doing most of the tampering. Unsurprisingly the investigation said that there was no tampering or misconduct). The Wikipedia article sums up the whole sordid story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Cooper_(prisoner)
Going back to Burge I think that there could be a case similarly fucked up (ie an innocent man was framed for a monstrous crime. There’s a lot of racial tensions and the guy gets death row.) Burge is majorly involved, using torture to get a confession.
Ultimately the early 90s see DNA testing done and the testing not only fully proves the guy’s innocence, it also reveals the actual perpetrator (a white man, while the guy tortured into confessing is a black man). This triggers more of an investigation into Burge’s crimes that results in dozens of other cases being overturned and triggering a nationwide debate on policing (the unions violently resist the conclusions of the report).
Burge ultimately looses his pension for it and while not jailed for torture is jailed for perjury (happened to Burge OTL).