lusa sentence featuredThis week, a story three decades in the making. Maria Hinojosa meets David Luis “Suave” Gonzalez in 1993. He was 17 years old when he was sentenced to life in prison. At a Pennsylvania prison, Suave joined the largest population of juvenile lifers in the country. And then a Supreme Court ruling changed everything, forever altering the course of Suave’s life.

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