My Review on The Sing Sing Files by Dan Slepian

Title: The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men & A Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

Author: Dan Slepian

Published: September 10,2024

Publisher: Celadon Books

Genre: Nonfiction/ True Crime/ History

Pages: 224 pages

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Review:

It's very thought-provoking and moving! Slepain writes how he initially started doing research for a different project, and some wrongfully landed in his lap. Then, he put the cases on the back burner while working on other projects. But, he was receiving letters from these men and then he had a cop find out the evidence that proved some of these guys were innocent and still charged. 

This is really eye-opening for issues that happen in our justice system and how many roadblocks can be put in front of someone trying to free innocent men. Slepian worked and documented many things and he worked hard to be able to free these men without his help it is very possible these six men would still be wrongfully imprisoned.

I realize that there are probably several that have been wrongfully convicted but I did not realize how in-depth it would go with detectives and DAs going to just "solve" the case to help their numbers even when they have evidence that the one they are charging did not commit the crime. This is a must-read for those who love true crime and also want to know about the other side of true crime when someone is wrongfully convicted. I extend my gratitude to Celadon Books and Netgalley for the extraordinary opportunity to read and review this one! 

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