This is a hard one for me to even talk about because John Asian Velasquez is someone who I consider well more than a close friend I consider him extended family.

I hate to report that nothing much has changed since the episode I recorded with him behind the walls of the maximum security prison, Singsing, Correctional Facility, on March 6th of 2017.

He's still there, I mean just think about what's two and a half years ago and he's been in for well over two decades now.

The bad news is that even with a tremendous amount of effort from so many great advocates, his motion for a new trial based on a Brady violation was denied.

I'm not really sure how they could happen, the Brady violation would seem to be obvious to almost anyone, but this judge didn't see it that way.

So JJ is good at anyone making the best of a terrible situation and I will say that Singsing Correctional hosts some wonderful events called Choices, which are focused on helping children of inmates follow their own paths in life and not make the mistakes that their fathers may have made in JJ's case.

So John Adrian's case he didn't make any mistakes, but many of the men who are incarcerated there certainly did things that we want to help steer their children away from.

So in April 2017 and December of 2018, JJ, John Adrian, organized fundraise. It was the master of ceremonies of the Choices events. I was there, it was a powerful presentation.

In October of 2017, he organized coordinated and co-moderated NYCHEP's second annual conference.

Nightcheps' collective goal is to increase access to higher education for those impacted by the criminal justice system and to pool resources in order to create seamless access to quality education inside prison and beyond.

In October of 2017, he also organized and facilitated the first-ever job readiness and reentry initiative at Singsing for individuals in the Singsing population who have 18 months or less until they are to be released.

It's designed to prepare them for reentry, so important.

While imprisoned, John Adrian has been a teacher fellow from Columbia University in the Psychology course from September to December of 2018 and he's still an administrative program assistant for Hudson Link for Higher Education in prison.

A position he's held since 2015. His accomplishments behind bars are above and beyond the accomplishments of so many people in free society and I just want to get him home.

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