Velazquez had long maintained his innocence in the 1998 shooting death of a former police officer. NBC's "Dateline" ...

Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez was exonerated in court on Monday after serving a 25-years-to-life sentence at Sing-Sing prison in ...

Jon-Adrian Velazquez spent close to 27 years caught in the criminal justice system — nearly all of it behind bars in New York ...

A criminal justice reform advocate featured in the movie “Sing Sing” has been exonerated in the 1998 killing of a retired New ...

MSNBC has announced a new docuseries titled “The Sing Sing Chronicles,” a four-episode investigative piece that will tell the ...

Velasquez was released from prison in 2021 and began filming for the A24 film based on the prison of the same name.

In 1998, Velazquez was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison despite not matching the suspect’s description. At the time, ...

Jon-Adrian Velazquez spent years in Sing Sing for ... went on at the City Council, which approved bills on jaywalking and rats. Lawyers for Mayor Eric Adams of New York filed a 25-page memo ...

They took materials that came into my possession approximately 20 years ago and are unrelated to my work with the New York City Police Department,” the statement said. “This is not a ...

They took materials that came into my possession approximately 20 years ago and are unrelated to my work with the New York City Police Department,” the statement said. “This is not a ...

Sing Sing' actor JJ Velazquez has been exonerated of his wrongful murder conviction after serving nearly 24 years in prison.