Hi there it's Dan Slepian,

Dateline producer and host of the podcast Letters from Sing Sing.

Today I have a special bonus episode for you to listen to.

It's an audio excerpt from my new book The Sing Sing Files. It's an incredibly

personal project and an expansion of what you've heard about in the podcast,

my investigation into the wrongful conviction of John Adrian J.J. Velasquez.

In the book,

book I cover not only J.J.'s case, but the cases of five other men who like J.J.

Were locked up for crimes they did not commit.

I take you through the stories of these six men, uncovering the

different ways in which our criminal justice system failed them. You'll hear from me

and some of the men directly about their stories.

If you like what you hear in this episode and want to hear more,

click the link in the episode notes to order a copy of the book or

audio book.

The Sing-Sink Files is also available wherever books and

audio books are sold. Now, here's an excerpt from the Sing Sing Files, read by me.

Introduction, J.J.

It was Thanksgiving Day 2002.

I was at the Greenhaven Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison a couple of hours north of Manhattan, filming a story for

NBC's Dateline about two incarcerated men who insisted they'd been wrongfully convicted of

murder.

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