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The Sing Sing files : one journalist, six innocent men, and a twenty-year fight for justice  Cover Image Book Book

The Sing Sing files : one journalist, six innocent men, and a twenty-year fight for justice / Dan Slepian.

Slepian, Dan, (author.).

Summary:

"It wasn't the September 11 attacks or the murders he'd investigated for the NYPD that haunted him, the detective told journalist Dan Slepian, but a 1990 case where two men were sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison for a murder they didn't commit. When Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC's Dateline, asked how he knew, the cop replied, "Because I know who the real killers are." Slepian couldn't shake what the detective had told him-and what it said about the criminal justice system. It began a two-decade-long personal and professional odyssey in which Slepian used his investigative skills to prove the innocence of not just those two men, but of four others also falsely convicted of murder by New York courts. The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice is Slepian's cinematic account of challenging a system fiercely resistant to rectifying or even acknowledging its mistakes and their consequences. The reader follows Slepian on prison visits, street reporting, and during his interactions with prosecutors, defense attorneys, witnesses, and police for the Dateline stories that eventually led to freedom for the imprisoned men. At the book's center is the friendship that developed between Slepian and Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez, who, from his cell at Sing Sing, directed Slepian to other innocent men until he, too, was finally released in 2021 after serving decades in prison. Like Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, The Sing Sing Files is a powerful account of addressing wrongful imprisonment but in the nation's largest city, not the rural South. Slepian's extraordinary book, at once infuriating and full of hope, shines a light on an injustice whose impact the nation has only begun to confront"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250897701
  • ISBN: 125089770X
  • Physical Description: viii, 211 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Celadon Books, 2024.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: meeting JJ -- Dateline -- The palladium -- David Lemus and Olmedo Hidalgo -- Bad cop movie -- The boss -- No retreat, no surrender -- Finding spanky -- The hearing -- "I told you I'd be back" -- 74 Minutes -- Some type of game -- The challenge -- Bob and Celia -- Eric Glisson and the Bronx Six -- The letter -- The failure of the CIU -- The day job -- The tourist subway murder -- 11/11 -- Thirteen alibis -- The yellow envelope -- "Us vs. them" -- "You're being transferred" -- "We ruined this person's life".
Subject: Slepian, Dan.
False imprisonment > New York (State)
Judicial error > New York (State)
Criminal justice, Administration of > New York (State)
Séquestration > New York (État)
Erreur judiciaire > New York (État)
Genre: Informational works.
Documents d'information.

Available copies

  • 0 of 1 copy available at Skagit Evergreen Libraries. (Show)
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  • 0 of 1 copy available at Burlington Public Library.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Burlington Public Library 364.1523 SLEPIAN 2024 39851001812404 New Non-fiction Copy hold Checked out 02/21/2025


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