Jon-Adrian 'JJ' Velazquez has been exonerated after spending nearly 24 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
Velasquez was released from prison in 2021 and began filming for the A24 film based on the prison of the same name.
After leaving prison, Velazquez has continued to fight for his own exoneration and criminal justice reform. He met in 2022 with President Biden, who apologized for his wrongful conviction. In the A24 ...
Sing Sing' actor JJ Velazquez was wrongly convicted of murder in the ’90s, the Manhattan district attorney said Monday.
MSNBC will tell the story of 'Sing Sing' actor JJ Velazquez and five other wrongfully convicted men in a docuseries titled ...
A criminal justice reform advocate featured in the movie “Sing Sing” has been exonerated in the 1998 killing of a retired New ...
In 1998, Velazquez was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison despite not matching the suspect’s description. At the time, ...
Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, the wrongfully convicted former prisoner who now appears with Colman Domingo in the A24 prison ...
After serving nearly 24 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, “Sing Sing” actor Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez has been ...
Idris Elba will star in a new television series adaptation produced by A24 based on Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Here's what we know!
the heartbreaking and heartwarming splendor of Sing Sing, and many more, A24 continues to be one of the most exciting and boundary-pushing production companies in the industry today. That being said, ...