The NBC producer speaks to Vanity Fair about his riveting new book, ‘The Sing Sing Files,’ which chronicles a two-decade odyssey probing wrongful convictions, and how reforming mass incarceration looks like the “next incarnation of the civil rights movement.
You couldn’t blame anyone wrongfully incarcerated for trying to get ahold of Slepian, whose dogged reporting for NBC ’s Dateline has helped free several innocent men and is the subject of his new book, The Sing Sing Files. It’s a riveting read—and an infuriating one.
I was part of the system where everyone’s just doing their jobs. There’s no bad guys.” “Detectives make arrests, close cases. Prosecutors prosecute cases. Juries have to decide. Sometimes they want to go home because they’re tired. Journalists are just telling both sides,” he adds. “But I came to a point where there weren’t both sides anymore. There was only one side, and I said that anyway.
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