In 1988, David Luis "Suave" Gonzalez was found guilty of first-degree homicide. Will Luis Suave Gonzalez and Other Juvenile Lifers Be Released from Prison? Fifteen seconds. And then the Supreme Court says HINOJOSA: It's going to happen. And I was honored to be that source. You know, Im gonna be the baddest dude on the block.. She was an NPR Next Generation Radio fellow and 2019 Ford Foundation 50 Women Can Change the World in Journalism fellow. You came out when you were in your mid-40s. She teaches audio reporting at the NYU School of Journalism. In 2018 she was a Fellow at Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School and is a frequent speaker across the country. He would spend the rest of his life behind bars, and would ultimately die in prison. Suave returns with Maria to the corner of 8th and Somerset in the Badlandsthe place where his victims young life ended and the place that changed the course of Suaves life. Then in 2016, the Supreme Court decided the case of Montgomery v Louisiana and ruled that Miller had to be applied retroactively. CHANG: Yeah. In the series premiere we meet Suave, a man who has been serving a life sentence at a Pennsylvania prison since he was just a teenager. Fantasy Premier League FPL set-pieces: Free-kicks add to David Luiz appeal. Why Did Xi Jinping Suddenly Call Zelensky? Convicted of the first-degree murder of a. It tells the remarkable story of David Luis Suave Gonzalez. Im getting out of jail, and when I mean getting out, I mean mentally. 2023 On his way to court, Suave is surprised by the smell of fresh air as he boards a bus and leaves the prison grounds for the first time in decades. She previously covered the criminal justice system, policing and immigration for Nashville Public Radio. Journalist Maria Hinojosa met David Luis "Suave" Gonzalez in 1993 while speaking at the Graterford State Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania. His stepfather beat him with belts, switches and a paddle labeledthe Punisher. Marlon Bishop is a Peabody Award-winning radio producer and editor with a focus on Latin America, immigration, identity and society, music and the arts. When you first heard the news that juvenile life sentences were going to be reconsidered, how much of you actually believed that you would be released back then? I think thats the reason we won., This is a remarkable achievement. David Luiz: Brazilian defender reveals surprise new look aged 35 By Rob Swan Published Nov 3, 2022 Brazilian defender David Luiz is synonymous for his trademark curly hair but has unveiled. Everything I knew up to that point was as a child in prison. Please note that this episode contains a brief description of violence and sexual abuse. I believe in going as far as stopping for an injured animal and saving it to fixing a butterflies wing and helping it fly for a week until it flew away. In August, journalist Rahsaan New York Thomas called Gonzalez from a phone booth on the ground tier of San Quentins North Block. DAVID LUIS "SUAVE" GONZALEZ: It hit me almost 10 years later that I have a life sentence, that I'm going to die in prison. Do you feel that you are simply a source to Maria, or is there something more? On his way to court, Suave is surprised by the smell of fresh air as he boards a bus and leaves the prison grounds for the first time in decades. And for me, one of the messages for my fellow journalists is, always stay in touch with your sources 'cause you never know. I saw some of the hardest dudes in the jail walking down the corridor with school books, because they want to go to school. As Suave adjusts to his new life on the outside, the challenges that come with his newfound freedom and the expectations from everyone around himhe ponders if things are too good to be true. As she anxiously awaits a phone call from Suave, Maria sets out to try and figure out what happened and eventually finds herself torn between her faith in Suaves innocence and her responsibility to believe his accuser. Gavin Newsom earlier this year. I went to college really like 25 years ago. 5850 Labath Ave. Rohnert Park, CA 94928 Telephone: Copyright (c) 2020 norcalpublicmedia.org. As he looks inward and determines to break intergenerational cycles he begins therapy to deal with the trauma of his childhood and incarceration. I began reading every law book, I began learning their system, to the point where I could memorize all of the rules and regulations and pinpoint when they was violating my rights. Who and What the Hell Is a White Hispanic? You had life without parole. I spent seven years there and in them seven years, another gentleman showed me how to read and write. Suave, as he likes to be called, was. He started painting watercolors when he was in prison. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. David Luis "Suave" Gonzalez met journalist Maria Hinojosa in 1993 during a talk at the prison in Pennsylvania where he was serving a sentence for first-degree homicide. Keep changing our world and spread kindness to all., Your email address will not be published. People dying in the streets and that need a helping hand. And I'm still honored to be that source. How did that happen? He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. It tells the remarkable story of David Luis "Suave" Gonzalez. We are so proud of our partners at Futuro Media, who represent the best of journalism and audio, saidKerri Hoffman, CEO of PRX. As a result of the ruling, Suave and thousands more in his position might have the opportunity to walk free. He was released last year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minors sentenced to life could be resentenced. Maggie Freleng is an investigative journalist, producer and the host/producer of Unjust & Unsolved, a podcast about wrongful convictions and the crimes that are consequently left unsolved. You have this dilemma with Suave - trying to keep some journalistic distance from him in the beginning, but then developing a genuine friendship with him, genuine affection. Her stories about immigrant youth, life in prison and what happens after have aired nationally on NPR programs, including Here and Now, Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. Its a circle and it goes on and on.. I failed drug dealing. This years awards honored work produced in 2021. Suave fromFuturo StudiosandPRXwas also awarded this year in theIDA Documentary Awardsfrom the International Documentary Association. Hinojosas nearly 30-year career as an award-winning journalist includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WNBC, CNN, NPR, and anchoring the Emmy Award winning talk show from WGBH Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One. You know, I was ready to die. Shes been invited to discuss her reporting on WBEZs Morning Shift, WAMUs 1A and NPRs Up First podcast. CHANG: It is fascinating to listen to both of you describe all the complex layers that come into a relationship between journalist and source. Were all dying in here. Maria learns more about Suaves childhood in the south Bronx and the sudden move that led him to the Badlands of north Philadelphia as a teenager. Everything she thought she knew about his case turns upside down. Shes been invited to discuss her reporting on WBEZs Morning Shift, WAMUs 1A and NPRs Up First podcast. Invite your employees, members, and customers as a. Fifteen seconds changed my whole life.. - for a journalist to make. CHANG: David Luis "Suave" Gonzalez is the focus of the new podcast "Suave." I like to say, I found a new habit. And I told him, When I get out, lmma get my GED. Then I got out of the hole [and] I took my GED. If you ask me, go on the Internet and Google something, Id be lost. Everything she thought she knew about his case turns upside down. As she anxiously awaits a phone call from Suave, Maria sets out to try and figure out what happened and eventually finds herself torn between her faith in Suaves innocence and her responsibility to believe his accuser. After expecting to die in prison, suddenly Gonzalez had another chance at freedom. Suave, as he likes to be called, was serving a life sentence without parole for a crime he committed when he was 17 years old. And then this lady come out of nowhere and just tell me, you could be the voice for the voiceless. This week, a story three decades in the making. Its the account of one mans incarceration and redemption and an unusual relationship between a journalist and a man convicted of murder. And theres no excuse. Thats how you get the street credibility. And he imagines this is what his life will be like until he dies. Prior winners in The Pulitzer Prizes have included This American Life as well as a jointly-produced podcast from NPR, KCUR, and WABE. And then this lady come out of nowhere and just tell me, you could be the voice for the voiceless. There are so many people with amazing life stories that should be heard. I didnt even know how to read, bro. And on the day of Suaves release, Maria travels to Pennsylvania to bring him home. Audreys reporting with Reveal on deadly for-profit disability care led to the unraveling of one of the countrys largest group home companies and earned a Garden State Award for podcasting. To quote her, How low this Courts respect for stare decisis has sunk., Youth supposedly mattered but the new majority in the U.S. Supreme Court regressed in its Eighth Amendment jurisprudence. And to me, it was just them simple words - you could be the voice for the voiceless - nothing else. And I understood that. Justice Kennedy, writing for a 6-3 majority, found that children are constitutionally different from adults in their level of culpability. Kennedy wrote that the severest penalty must be reserved for the rarest of juvenile offenders, those whose crimes reflect permanent incorrigibility., Justice Kennedy was responding to research that showed that because of developing brains, children were less culpable for their crimes and were more likely to be rehabilitated than adult offenders. This is what we do. Now, Gonzalez is a support coach with I Am More, a reentry program for formerly incarcerated students at Philadelphia Community College. That means I cant go to the hole because if I go to the hole, Im gonna lose my slot in the program. He made his 9 million dollar fortune with Benfica, Chelsea, Paris Saint Germain & Brazil National Squad. And that someone was Maria. In 2019, Futuro Studios debuted with The Battle of 187, a co-production with the Los Angeles Times, following up with Con Todo: Brown Love in collaboration with Netflix, Radical Imagination with PolicyLink, and TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones. In the corner of 8th and Somerset, Maria encourages Suave to talk about that night, which theyve never discussed in nearly three decades of friendship. HINOJOSA: Because things change, Ailsa. Police say 34-year-old Luiz Martinez struck the victim in the face inside a bar in Paterson Sunday night, causing 54-year-old Agustin Arias-Gomez to fall backwards and hit his head on the ground. That is until a Supreme Court ruling changes everythingand Suave suddenly gets a second chance to fight for his freedom. Lance Reenstierna. Graterford Prison, where Suave was incarcerated, on July 20, 2001. PRX serves independent producers and organizations by helping them connect to their most engaged, supportive audiences. We cant change the world fighting over whos right or wrong. Sometimes they surprise and entertain. A Philadelphia judge sentenced him to life without parole for a crime he committed when he was 17 years old. I wanna talk to you about the Pulitzer prize, bro. So to me, education was about fighting the system and changing the law. Like, if you never go home, what does that matter? They kept in touch over the decades by phone, letter, and occasional visits. Convicted of the first-degree murder of a 13-year-old boy, Suave had received a sentence of life without parole when he was 17. He taught other inmates how to paint watercolor. In 1988, David Luis Suave Gonzalez was found guilty of first-degree homicide. But as Suave readies for life on the outside, his excitement gives way to a never ending list of fears about what life outside of prison might be like. But it was new to me because when I went in, I had a complete family. You know, it was scary because even though I went to college, I got my degrees, I educated myself, transformed myself, I never thought about living as a free man, as an adult. You could be the source - my source. You can do that on your own. It's impossible. I genuinely care. Suave returns with Maria to the corner of 8th and Somerset in the Badlandsthe place where his victims young life ended and the place that changed the course of Suaves life. Suave had a rough startas a teenager walking into a maximum-security prison he says he was a target, and much like in the neighborhood where he grew up, Suave decided he had to be tougher than everyone else. The story follows David Luis Suave Gonzalez from boy to man, exploring incarceration, redemption, and the often unusual relationship between a journalist and a source. The Jones decision effectively closed the door of judicial review for many outstanding cases. CHANG: You know, Suave, it's really moving to listen to you talk about Maria the way you do and the role that she has played in your life. He been feature on Latino USA on NPR, and In The Thick. CHANG: So Maria, I want to start with you because you met Suave back in the early '90s when the conversation around the criminal justice system was so different from the conversation we are having now about the criminal justice system. Recently, it launched the critically-acclaimed podcasts: Anything For Selena with WBUR, La Brega with WNYC Studios, Norco 80 for LAist Studios, LOUD: The History of Reggaeton with Spotify, and dolo: The Ballad of Chalino Snchez with Sonoro. This is a testament to never giving up on a story and to trusting your producers. And Suave reveals to Maria a shocking story shes never heard before about the night of the murder in 1986. Approximately 2,500 juveniles have been effectively sentenced to die in prisonconsidered "irredeemable" by the state for crimes committed when they were just teenagers. David Luis Gonzalez is an artist, TedX speaker, podcast host, and support coach for the "I Am More" program at Community College of Philadelphia. CHANG: And Suave, can you take me back to that moment? And it was just the most unbelievable thing, truly. 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?. I don't know - because, Suave, we didn't even talk about it 'cause it's like you're in for life. Im going up and I know everything that goes up must come down.. Maria ponders how her relationship with Suave might change now that hell be free and theyll have a chance to explore their connection beyond a journalist-source relationship. You could be the source - my source. The Jones decision is an undeniably major setback in the movement to end juvenile life without parole. The punishment is now banned in half the states and in a handful of states, no one is serving the sentence. So winning that prize means that our issues are in the frontline right next. If you wait for the DOC to give you permission to do it, its never gonna get done. In 1988, David Luis "Suave" Gonzalez was found guilty of first-degree homicide. And Suave, you've been talking to Maria for so many years. Things in Suaves life took a completely unexpected turn when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 in the case of Miller v Alabama that for juveniles, mandatory life without parole sentences violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. I never had a program that DOC gave me. So I did and I looked over and seen a class. Maggie is an Adjunct Professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and formerly the Producer-at-Large for Latino USA. In 1988, Gonzalez was found guilty of a first-degree homicide committed when he was 17 years old. Maria and Maggie discuss how the Supreme Courts decision in Montgomery v. Louisiana has played out differently across the country, leaving some juvenile lifers still behind bars. Maggie is an Adjunct Professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and formerly the Producer-at-Large for Latino USA. I mean, I was really struck by something you said in the first episode - that, quote, "We have this tool that we journalists can use, which is our humanity" - that if you give humanity, you're going to get it back. We had to fight DOC to create programs in order for us to have one chance to get in one class. Kagan wrote that adolescence is marked by transient rashness, proclivity for risk and inability to assess consequences, all factors that should mitigate the punishment received by juvenile defendants. Each week, , hosts David "Suave" Gonzalez (Suave podcast/released lifer) and Kevin McCracken (Adulting Well podcast) will be joined by law-makers, community leaders, policy-makers, formerly incarcerated and the currently incarcerated as they shed light on institutions that viciously target and harm marginalized communities, specifically Maria Hinojosa, Maggie Freleng, Julieta Martinelli, Stephanie Lebow, Audrey Quinn, and Marlon Bishop the production team behind Suave, When I heard the news that Suave won the Pulitzer Prize, I felt like a tectonic shift happened, saidMaria Hinojosa, President and Founder of Futuro Media. But the return to prison has him questioning a lot of things, including what led him there in the first place. How big of a difference would it make if institutions across the country really put a focus on education? 116 in July 2010. l mean, of course it would have been easier, but guess what? He would spend the rest of his life . This represents a 38% decline since 2016. Follow her on Twitter and sign up for her newsletter, College Inside, on the future of postsecondary education in prison. That moment sparked a transformation in the life of Suave. I was on a suicide mission. GONZALEZ: And I always tell people, like, we never know who we're going to touch. For more about Suave, listen to Life Sentence from Latino USA: Featured image:Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images, I hope my brother Luis suave Gonzalez gets out soon, Damn straight I havent see David in years, Yeah free david he need to get out already sooo happy for him, I heard the 104.5 morning show with Suave and I was so impressed! I can send you a list with hundreds of schools that will offer you correspondence courses for free. She previously covered the criminal justice system, policing and immigration for Nashville Public Radio. March 14, 2021 at 5:47 PM Sentenced at age 17, David Luis "Suave" Gonzalez was serving life without parole when he met reporter Maria Hinojosa. Eddie Gonzalez for Paterson Board of Education. The DOC is not there to make it easy for us, bro. As a Soros Justice Media Fellow, she spent 2019 documenting the human repercussions of changing legal policies along the U.S.-Mexico border. All contents Can you just talk a little bit about that? Gonzalez, though not visited by PVS, speaks powerfully about the importance of human connections during his time inside. And that's good journalism. Slate is published by The Slate GONZALEZ: What I do believe is that Maria is a journalist that wasn't trying to sensationalize my story, and she was telling it in an educational way where we could get people to understand that prison is not the rite of passage.
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