The Sentence - Ep. 1
Suave
Futuro Media
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
“The very last word she said was ‘You can become a voice for the voiceless.’ And I was just like, ‘Damn, why am I letting this lady mess up my high?’”
We meet Suave, a man who has been serving a life sentence at a Pennsylvania maximum-security prison since he was a teenager. And we learn about his decades-long relationship as a source with journalist Maria Hinojosa. 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 suddenly grants him a second chance to fight for his freedom.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on? Just talk to me. |
| 0:09.9 | Suave, I'm talking to you. What is going on? |
| 0:12.7 | I'm cool. |
| 0:13.6 | Suave, forget that Maggie's in the room. Forget that Maggie is... |
| 0:18.0 | I'm cool. I'm serious. I'm cool. I'm just... |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, but just tell me what just happened. |
| 0:28.6 | I never thought I'd be locked up in a room like this again. I'm cool. |
| 0:32.6 | I know you're cool, sweetie. You're out of prison. |
| 0:35.6 | I just had a little flashback. Okay. |
| 0:41.9 | It's just like, it's too real. It's too real. It's like, damn. |
| 0:46.7 | The reality is I had a life sentence. There's no parole in the state of Pennsylvania for life. |
| 0:51.9 | When you're a lifer then, they tell you where do you want your body sent to when you die. |
| 0:55.3 | So you got to mentally be paid for the worst. |
| 0:57.2 | But I made it. |
| 1:00.1 | I made it out, so I'm good. |
| 1:03.7 | You're making me cry, actually. |
| 1:06.1 | The fact that you're having this reaction to this room, I mean, it's just a studio. |
| 1:08.3 | It's a dark little |
| 1:09.9 | constructed studio. And like the both of us are crying it's just a studio. It's a dark, little, you know, constructed studio. And like, |
| 1:12.7 | the both of us are crying about a friggin studio. Well, to most |
| 1:15.7 | people, it's probably a studio. But to me, it's like, |
| 1:19.1 | it's a space where I spend |
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