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    The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
    The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
    The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
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    The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

    Written by Dan Slepian

    Narrated by Dan Slepian

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    About this audiobook

    The author's podcast, Letters from Sing Sing, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

    This program is read by the author and features sound design and original archival sound recordings from Sing Sing maximum-security prison, including letters written to the author. It also includes commentary from formerly incarcerated men.

    An NBC Dateline producer's cinematic account of his two-decade journey navigating the broken criminal justice system to help free six innocent men

    In 2002, Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC’s Dateline, received a tip from a Bronx homicide detective that two men were serving twenty-five years to life in prison for a 1990 murder they did not commit.

    Haunted by what the detective had told him, Slepian began an investigation of the case that eventually resulted in freedom for the two men and launched Slepian on a two-decade personal and professional journey into a deeply flawed justice system fiercely resistant to rectifying—or even acknowledging—its mistakes and their consequences.

    The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice is Slepian’s account of challenging that system. The story follows Slepian on years of prison visits, court hearings, and street reporting that led to a series of powerful Dateline episodes and eventually to freedom for four other men and to an especially deep and lasting friendship with one of them, Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez. From his cell in Sing Sing, JJ aided Slepian in his investigations until his own release in 2021 after decades in prison.

    Like Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy, The Sing Sing Files is a deeply personal account of wrongful imprisonment and the flaws in our justice system, and a powerful argument for reckoning and accountability. Slepian’s extraordinary book, at once painful and full of hope, shines a light on an injustice whose impact the nation has only begun to confront.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books.

    Editor's Note

    When justice is anything but…

    Many Americans believe that if they haven’t committed a crime, they’re safe to go about their lives without hassle from law enforcement. NBC “Dateline” producer Slepian blows apart this fragile veneer of false confidence with a disturbing probe into the justice system’s flaws and oversights. His findings, both infuriating and heartbreaking, reveal the wrongful convictions of six innocent men, the reticence of law enforcement to admit their mistakes, and the 20-year fight it took to free the falsely imprisoned.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateSep 10, 2024
    ISBN9781250366535
    The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
    Author

    Dan Slepian

    Dan Slepian is an award-winning journalist at NBC News and a veteran producer of its signature newsmagazine, Dateline. Over more than two decades at NBC, Slepian has spearheaded dozens of documentaries and hidden-camera investigations, and is known for his in-depth reporting about the criminal legal system and, specifically, wrongful convictions. He has received three Edward R. Murrow Awards, more than a dozen Emmys, and has been recognized by multiple justice organizations across the country. Slepian was the host of Letters from Sing Sing, a podcast that was #1 on Apple's true crime charts and a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting.

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