Incarceration and Redemption

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 11 p.m.

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Maria and Julio reconnect with David Luis \\u201cSuave\\u201d Gonzalez,\\xa0an artist\\xa0and former juvenile lifer, who they talked to during a\\xa02018 ITT Live show in Chicago.\\xa0Maria reflects on meeting Suave over 20 years ago, and how their journalist-source relationship has evolved since. And, Suave talks about his journey from incarceration to redemption in Pennsylvania, the state that was known as the epicenter for juveniles serving life without parole. You can listen to Suave\'s full story in a new podcast from Futuro Studios distributed by PRX.\\xa0Subscribe here!\\xa0 ITT Staff Picks:\\xa0 - Jamaal Bowman writes about the school-to-prison pipeline and how disproportionate disciplinary standards push Black and Brown students into a system of mass incarceration in this piece for\\xa0The Washington Post. - "It\\u2019s hard to estimate how many juveniles are serving long sentences equivalent to life. In most states, no agency is mandated to count how many kids are sent away until they will likely die, though youth advocates in Louisiana, for example, estimate there are more than 200 in that state\\u2019s penitentiaries alone,"\\xa0writes Eli Hager for The Marshal Project\'s Justice Lab. - As of January 2021, "Ohio is the 24th state, plus D.C., that will stop imposing sentences of juvenile life without parole,"\\xa0reports Daniel Nichanian for The Appeal. Photo credit: Maggie Freleng/Futuro Studios \\xa0

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