{"product_id":"the-sing-sing-files-dan-slepian-9781250897701","title":"The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn NBC \u003ci\u003eDateline\u003c\/i\u003e producer's cinematic account of two decades navigating a broken criminal justice system to help free six innocent men. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2002, Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC's \u003ci\u003eDateline\u003c\/i\u003e, received a tip from a Bronx homicide detective that would change his life. Two men were serving twenty-five years to life in prison for a murder in 1990, the cop said, and he knew for a fact that they did not commit that crime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaunted by what he had heard, Slepian began an investigation that eventually led to freedom for those two men, and launched him on a two-decade personal and professional journey through a system fiercely resistant to rectifying--or even acknowledging--its mistakes and their consequences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice\u003c\/i\u003e is an investigative journalist's account of how he took on that system and of the years of prison visits, court hearings and powerful Dateline reporting it took to bring justice to those two men and four others imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. It is also the story of the deep and lasting friendships Slepian formed with the men whose cases he pursued, and how one of them--Jon-Adrian \"JJ\" Velazquez--provided aid and counsel to him from his cell in Sing Sing prison until his own release in 2021 after decades behind bars. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike Bryan Stevenson's \u003ci\u003eJust Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sing Sing Files \u003c\/i\u003eis a deeply personal account of wrongful imprisonment and the enormous effort required to redress it, and a powerful argument for reckoning and accountability. This extraordinary book, at once painful and full of hope, shines a light on a kind of injustice whose consequences we have only begun to confront.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dan Slepian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 125089770X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250897701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Celadon Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Dan Slepian","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45180092186879,"sku":"9781250897701","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f4bcc8f8-34b8-4961-a67e-b69f03bbcaaf.jpg?v=1712897469","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sing-sing-files-dan-slepian-9781250897701","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}