The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice by Dan Slepian is a forthcoming title from Celadon Books. 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, hidden camera investigations, and is known for his in-depth reporting about the criminal legal system and specifically, wrongful convictions.
His documentaries on the topic have earned him a total of twelve Emmy nominations and in February 2023, NBC News released "Letters From Sing Sing," an eight-episode award-winning podcast hosted by Slepian that hit #1 on Apple's top charts the day of its release.
When NBC "Dateline" reporter and producer Dan Slepian stumbled upon evidence that a number of men serving lengthy terms in the New York State prison system may have been innocent, he couldn't let it go. In a voice bristling with urgency, empathy, and determination, Slepian recounts how false identification, racial profiling, prosecutorial misconduct, incentivized witnesses, and just being in the w
