Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez’s career as a criminal legal reform activist began in 1998 when he was wrongfully convicted as the shooter in the murder of a retired police officer. He spent almost 24 years in New York State’s maximum security prisons assisting, educating and mentoring incarcerated people and their families.

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