“Pure Hell.” That’s how John “Divine G” Whitfield describes a part of his experience at the Sing Sing correctional facility, a maximum security prison in Ossining, New York state, where he served a 25 ...

In the three-time Oscar-nominated drama “Sing Sing,” Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez and his fellow cast members tell a story that began nearly 20 years ago in a maximum-security prison. In 2005, a group of ...