Parole & The Pursuit of Happiness - Ep. 2

About this episode

The episode explores Suave's life on parole and the limitations he faces despite being free.

Suave can’t drink. He can’t smoke weed. He can’t travel. He can’t visit old prison friends, or basically have any interaction with the police. And that’s because even though he’s free, he’s on parole for a lifetime. In other words he’s just serving his prison sentence on the outside. Sometimes all these rules make Suave ask himself, “Will I ever really be free?” Season 2 of Suave was made possible by The Mellon Foundation. Mellon makes grants to support the visionaries and communities that unlock the power of the arts and humanities to help connect us all. More at mellon.org . Want to support our independent journalism? Join Futuro+ for exclusive episodes, sneak peaks and behind-the-scenes chisme on Suave and all our podcasts futuromediagroup.org/joinplus . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Suave

Topics covered

• parole
• freedom
• life after prison
• rules of parole
• personal struggle
• society

Keywords

• parole
• freedom
• prison
• Suave
• lifetime parole
• Mellon Foundation
• independent journalism

Sponsors

The Mellon Foundation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Futuro Media

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