Dan Slepian and JJ Velazquez joined Kristen Welker for a “Meet the Moment” conversation to detail their 20+ year effort to free Velazquez from a wrongful murder criminal conviction. It’s a decades-long journey to freedom that was captured in Slepian’s new book, “The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice.”
President Joe Biden apologizes to JJ "on behalf of all society" for his wrongful conviction.
The podcast 'Letters from Sing Sing' details JJ's case that began with a letter sent to NBC News Investigative Producer Dan Slepian.
NBC News investigative reporter Dan Slepian and JJ talk about 'Letters from Sing Sing' podcast from NBC News Studios.
Punishment alone is not enough to rehabilitate.
After being in prison for over 23 years released through executive clemency in 2021, JJ now works to reform the criminal legal system from the outside.
Lester Holt Reports 'Letters from Sing Sing': The 20-Year Search For The Truth
NBC Dateline documentary on the story of Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez
JJ is what the FAHERTY brand calls a TRUE LEGEND.
JJ fights his conviction with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maggie Freleng on PEOPLE TV.
JJ fights for his freedom in this short film by NowThis and Wrongful Conviction by Jason Flom.
At Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York, incarcerated men are "redefining what it means to repay a debt to society" with peer counseling organization, Voices From Within, led by Executive Director JJ Velazquez.
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