During his incarceration, JJ Velazquez has been a model inmate. He - TopicsExpress



          

During his incarceration, JJ Velazquez has been a model inmate. He lives in honor block, he has earned a college degree, and is the spokesperson for the inmate population to the prisons administration. Most of all, though, hes still fighting for his freedom. I have been dragged through the gates of hell with no solid grounds for keeping me hostage, he wrote in his most recent letter. Do I have to jump off a prison tier with a noose around my neck to get people to realize that wrongful convictions are a slow death? What will it take? --- I was very disappointed when the Manhattan District Attorneys Conviction Integrity Unit did not agree to reopen his case. By then, Dateline had uncovered additional evidence pointing to his innocence, including one of the people who picked him out in a line up saying the police forced him to- pick him out, our Ill charge you with distributing heroin. I hope he gets a chance in the courts, he was recently denied an opportunity to appeal. The system is broken, very, very broken.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:38:56 +0000

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