Velazquez had long maintained his innocence in the 1998 shooting death of a former police officer. NBC's "Dateline" ...

Jon-Adrian Velazquez spent close to 27 years caught in the criminal justice system — nearly all of it behind bars in New York ...

A criminal justice reform advocate featured in the movie “Sing Sing” has been exonerated in the 1998 killing of a retired New ...

NEW YORK (AP) — After serving nearly 24 years in prison before being granted clemency and starring in last year’s movie “ Sing Sing ... of retired New York City police officer Albert ...

‘Sing Sing’ Actor Exonerated of Murder ... 48-year-old’s wrongful conviction in the killing of retired New York City police officer Albert Ward during a robbery in 1998.

At the Sing Sing maximum security ... according to data from the state correction department. More than half of people incarcerated there are from New York City, and about a third are serving ...