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

According to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg's office, two individuals committed a robbery of a gambling parlor on ...

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, 48, walked into Manhattan Supreme Court already a free man, his sentence having been commuted in ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday moved to fill vacancies on the Second District Court of Appeal, nominating three current judges ...

Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, who was granted clemency and freed in 2021, has now been officially exonerated, clearing his name of a wrongful conviction that kept him behind bars for nearly […] The post ...

Jimmy Carter sets a new record on October 1, his birthday, when he will become the first American president to reach triple digits.

In the early 1990s, historians and the public alike questioned how Disney's America would accurately and sensitively document ...

New data show that more than 425,000 illegal immigrants convicted of crimes, including homicide and sexual assault, have been allowed into the country. Joseph Gow, who already lost his position as ...