What it Means to be ‘Facing Life’ — After a Commuted Life Sentence

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4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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“I basically went from living in a fishbowl, which is the prison yard, to swimming in a whole ocean.” That’s how Travielle Pope describes what it was like to reintegrate into a profoundly changed society after serving 26 years of a life sentence in a California prison. Pope is one of eight formerly incarcerated people KQED’s Pendarvis Harshaw and his co-producer Brandon Tauszik profile for their new multimedia project “Facing Life.” It explores the everyday challenges – from operating smartphones to finding jobs and shelter – the formerly incarcerated face. We’ll talk about the project and why Harshaw and Tauszik say it’s time to “prepare for a society where mass incarceration is no longer a thing—but mass integration is.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.3	Coming up on forum, a combination of overcrowded prisons and the pandemic has led California
0:55.3	to release more people living behind bars, with 2020 seeing the state's biggest one-year release
1:01.2	ever.
1:02.1	My plan for the future now is just to be part of society, do what I can do to help others
1:08.8	that might need help.
1:10.0	I've always said that's all I wanted to do is just be that next door old lady that lives
1:15.6	next door that she's real nice, you know, that's why I want to be.
1:19.6	A new project looks at what the formerly incarcerated now face as they enter a deeply changed
1:24.6	to California.
1:25.6	We meet one of the people profiled and the project's
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