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Suave: Episode 1 'The Sentence'

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.93.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Suave has been serving a life sentence at a Pennsylvania maximum-security prison since he was a teenager. In 1993, he meets Maria Hinojosa when she's invited to speak at the prison and they begin a decades-long journalist-source relationship. Now nearly 50, Suave has come to terms with the fact that he will never leave the confines of Graterford prison. That is until a Supreme Court ruling in 2016 changes everything — and suddenly grants him a second chance to fight for his freedom.

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0:40.0

What's going on? Just talk to me.

0:49.0

Swavi, I'm talking to you. What is going on? I'm cool.

0:54.0

Swavi, forget that magazine in the room. I'm cool. I'm serious. I'm cool. I'm just...

1:00.0

Yeah, but just tell me what just happened.

1:09.0

I never thought we'd locked up in a room like this again. I'm cool.

1:14.0

You're cool, sweetie. You're out of prison. I had a little flashback.

1:19.0

It's just like, it's too real. It's too real. It's like, damn. The reality is, I had a life sentence.

1:25.0

There's no parole in the state of Pennsylvania for life. When you're a lifeer then, they tell you where do you want your body sent to?

1:32.0

When you die. So you got to mentally prepare for the words. But I made it. I made it out so I'm good.

1:42.0

You're making me cry, actually. The fact that you're having this reaction to this room, I mean, it's just a studio.

1:48.0

It's a dark little, you know, constructed studio. And like, the both of us are crying about a freaking studio.

1:55.0

What's... what most people is probably the studio, what to me is that it's a space where I spend...

2:02.0

...posing on my life in.

2:04.0

The thing is, what you don't know, Swavi, is that it was actually in this room, right?

2:09.0

In this studio where you would call, and I'd come running in, and we'd record, you know, I'd hold the phone up here right here.

2:16.0

So it was in this room that I had hundreds of phone calls with you.

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