Parole & The Pursuit of Happiness - Ep. 2
Suave
Futuro Media
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Suave can’t drink. He can’t smoke weed. He can’t travel. He can’t visit old prison friends, or basically have any interaction with the police. And that’s because even though he’s free, he’s on parole for a lifetime. In other words he’s just serving his prison sentence on the outside. Sometimes all these rules make Suave ask himself, “Will I ever really be free?”
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| 0:00.0 | Season 2 of Suave was made possible by the Mellon Foundation. Melon makes grants to support |
| 0:13.3 | visionaries and communities that unlock the power of the arts and humanities to help connect us all. |
| 0:20.5 | More at Mellon.org. |
| 0:22.6 | When I founded Futuro, I imagined a home for journalism with radical transparency. |
| 0:29.3 | I wanted a newsroom where I wasn't the only Latina behind the mic. Now Futuro is |
| 0:36.6 | becoming a home for more voices than ever. |
| 0:40.5 | Help grow this future by joining our new membership program. |
| 0:44.4 | You'll get exclusive interviews, whole season binges. |
| 0:49.1 | Behind the scenes, Chisemey, shape the future of storytelling. |
| 0:53.3 | Join Futuro Plus. |
| 0:55.5 | Visit our website, Futuromediagroup.org slash join plus. |
| 1:01.1 | And not you buy yes. |
| 1:06.6 | Sometimes I do think that I was better off locked up. |
| 1:16.6 | That's hard to say, but it's the truth. |
| 1:21.6 | You know, it's the truth. |
| 1:23.6 | And whoever been locked up 31 years or more and tell you otherwise, it's line. |
| 1:30.8 | Dayline. |
| 1:34.2 | I'm still living. |
| 1:35.2 | I still live like I'm in prison. |
| 1:37.6 | Like, locked up. |
| 1:40.1 | I'm like, I'm in my fault fucking jail cell. |
| 1:42.9 | You know, that's the scary part for me. |
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