Copyright 2021 NPR. Its a circle and it goes on and on.. Look. Its the account of one mans incarceration and redemption and an unusual relationship between a journalist and a man convicted of murder. David Luiz Flamengo Defender, Profile & Stats | Premier League Im serious, bro, who wouldve thought that a juvenile lifer [who] learned how to read and write in prison, went to prison with an IQ of 56, would one day win the Pulitzer Award and the IDA award, which is like the Oscar of podcasts? Recently I listened to the seven-part podcast Suave. While incarcerated, Gonzalez developed a decades-long friendship with journalist Maria Hinojosa. This years awards honored work produced in 2021. And I felt like I was breaking that bond. 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalists for audio included NPR and NBC News. Julieta Martinelli is an award-winning investigative reporter and currently a producer at Latino USA. David Luis "Suave" Gonzalez was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole when he was 17. You can avoid it by skipping between minute 4:45-6:45. If I had not decided to stay in touch with Suave, decided not to take his phone calls, decided not to send him a Christmas card and a birthday card, we wouldn't have the kind of journalism that we're able to do now. David Luiz. Now nearly 50, Suave has come to terms with the fact that he will never leave the confines of SCI Graterford. Suave - The Futuro Media Group Me, I say, fuck this jail shit. Released in 2017 and now in his 50s, the series follows Suave as he transitions to life on the outside and tries to live as a model citizen, yet he soon realizes there are limits to how much freedom he can ever truly have. Meanwhile, Maria travels to Philadelphia and Suave anxiously awaits the decision from a judge that could finally grant him the opportunity to experience life on the outside as an adult for the first time. And even though I've been home three years, I'm still lost, you know, because this world moved fast. Luis "Suave" Gonzalez was only 17 at the time, making him a juvenile, but he was tried as an adult and given a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of ever being released. Julieta Martinelli is an award-winning investigative reporter and currently a producer at Latino USA. It does, however, demand that most children be spared from punishments that give no chance for fulfillment outside prison walls, no chance for reconciliation with society, no hope., In Jones, the Court ignored the plaintiffs significant steps toward rehabilitation and maturity. His stepfather did not call him by his name but referred to him by cruel epithets. After a decade reporting on music for various outlets, he served as Senior Editor on the public radio program Latino USA. Group, a Graham Holdings Company. Suave, you just heard Maria say, he's not a friend. There are still several episodes to go in this podcast, so I don't know how the story ends up. And thats the life hes leading, in and out of solitary confinement, when he meets Maria Hinojosa in 1993. I said, I want to be part of that. So when I went in, everybody looking at me like I was crazy-like, here comes this troublemaker. So I signed [in 1998] up. It tells the remarkable story of David Luis "Suave" Gonzalez. He had gotten a life sentence as a juvenile without the possibility of parole. What gave you the motivation even to keep breathing, bro? Suave also reckons with complicated emotions, wavering between the unparalleled joy of his upcoming release and the guilt of leaving behind the men hes considered his brothers for nearly three decades. In this episode, we follow Suave in his first year of freedom as he experiences countless firsts: leaving the halfway house for his first solo apartment, adopting a pet, finding a job and the start of a promising relationship with someone from his past.
