You may have heard of the film Sing Sing, the riveting new A24 drama that has won acclaim for its portrayal of incarcerated men involved in the creation of theatrical stage shows at New York's Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison. And tonight, you'll get to learn more about one cast member from that film—actor, legal reform activist and onetime Sing Sing inmate JJ Velazquez—in the new docuseries The Sing Sing Chronicles, which centers on the wrongfully convicted man (who served nearly 24 years in prison before being exonerated) and his surprising connection with veteran crime reporter Dan Slepian.
With the first two episodes airing tonight, November 23, beginning at 9pm Eastern Time on MSNBC as part of a special two-night event, The Sing Sing Chronicles was directed by Dawn Porter and pieced together from an archive of more than 1,000 hours of footage filmed from 2002 to present day. Along with telling the story of the decades-long bond between Velazquez and Slepian, the four-episode exposé also delves into four different homicide cases and the history of wrongful convictions at the notorious New York correctional facility.
