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Suave - Spotlight

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Snap Judgment and PRX

Snap, Glynn, Storytelling, Wnyc, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Performing Arts, Washington, Society & Culture/documentary, Arts/performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.811.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week, Snap is proud to spotlight Suave! This podcast captures the true story of a teenager sentenced to life in prison without parole & what happens when, decades later, he suddenly gets a second chance at freedom. It’s the story of thousands of juveniles sentenced to die in U.S. prisons told through one man’s journey of incarceration and redemption and his near 30-year friendship with journalist, Maria Hinojosa.

This episode contains strong language and descriptions of violence and sexual assault, listener discretion is advised.

Suave is an amazing podcast from Futuro Studios and PRX. Suave is available wherever you listen to podcasts and at www.suavepodcast.org. New episodes drop every Tuesday... listen and subscribe!

Artwork by Virgilio Tzaj

#Suavepodcast

Sound design by Pat Mesiti-Miller

Snap Spotlight - Season 12 - Episode 7

Transcript

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Now, Judgment Studios.

0:13.8

Half a decade into a life sentence and a maximum security prison in Pennsylvania, a young

0:19.7

man named Luis Suave Gonzalez got himself a radio.

0:23.9

It only picked up two stations, one of them happened to be in PR.

0:28.7

In this night in particular, Suave struggled to fall back asleep after the nightly 3am

0:34.3

count.

0:35.3

Then he heard the voice of one of the correspondence, a woman, a Latina, her name was Maria

0:42.9

Ino Jose.

0:45.2

And this was the first time that Suave had ever heard someone like him on the radio.

0:50.5

He thought, one day I'd like to meet her.

0:53.8

At that moment, Suave, who was told he would die in prison, had no idea, just how intertwined

1:00.3

their lives would become over the next three decades.

1:03.6

And today, Snapchat Spotlight, it's on a new series called Suave, from Futuro Studios

1:10.0

and PRX.

1:11.0

It focuses on Suave, one of thousands of juveniles, sentenced to life in prison without the

1:16.5

possibility of parole and the Supreme Court decision that changed their lives.

1:21.8

The story unfolds in some of the harshest conditions possible and sensitive listeners should

1:25.8

note, it does contain references to both violence and sexual assault.

1:30.7

The series traces Suave's incarceration, his redemption, and an unusual relationship

1:35.2

between a journalist and a source.

1:37.6

I can't wait for you to hear the first episode right here right now.

1:42.2

Snapchat Spotlight.

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