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

Velazquez had spent over two decades in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of the 1998 murder of a retired NYPD ...

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

MSNBC will tell the story of 'Sing Sing' actor JJ Velazquez and five other wrongfully convicted men in a docuseries titled ...

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

Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, who recently appeared in the movie Sing Sing, had his conviction overturned Monday, after being ...

According to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg's office, two individuals committed a robbery of a gambling parlor on ...

Newly available DNA evidence failed to link Velazquez to the killing of former New York police officer Albert Ward in 1998.

A man who spent more than two decades behind bars for a murder he didn't commit is officially a free man. Jon-Adrian ...

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

After serving nearly 24 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, “Sing Sing” actor Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez has been ...

Jon-Adrian Velazquez spent years in Sing Sing for a shooting he did not commit. Along the way, he helped others seek their ...