Commuted | Trailer
Preview: Season 16 Episode 1 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
After Danielle Metz’s commutation, she gets a rare chance to regain her life and family.
In 1993, Danielle Metz was labeled a drug kingpin and sentenced to triple life in California, many miles away from New Orleans and her two children. Metz's sentence was commuted 23 years later. Now back home, she is stepping into a different reality. The film traces Metz's journey in confronting the wounds of incarceration, and to finding purpose, love and unification with her two grown children.
Funding for AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Funding for America ReFramed provided by the...
Commuted | Trailer
Preview: Season 16 Episode 1 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
In 1993, Danielle Metz was labeled a drug kingpin and sentenced to triple life in California, many miles away from New Orleans and her two children. Metz's sentence was commuted 23 years later. Now back home, she is stepping into a different reality. The film traces Metz's journey in confronting the wounds of incarceration, and to finding purpose, love and unification with her two grown children.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- This was 1993.
The last day I was with them in the free world.
- With each incarceration, a family serves a sentence - Before the separation, she was my best friend.
- When she came home, happy as I was, my soul was just exhausted.
- It's bittersweet.
Looking at my kids kind of reminds me of where my life could have been.
- Mama.
- How do you rebuild a family?
- If you've been out of somebody's life 23 years, that's how long it probably take to get things back to normal.
I am home, but I am not free.
I am not free because my sisters are not free.
I'm just trying to figure this whole freedom thing out.
What's my purpose?
- "Commuted," a special edition of AfroPop and America ReFramed, directed by Nailah Jefferson, and produced in collaboration with Danielle Metz.
Beyond the Lens: Commuted | Nailah Jefferson, Darcy McKinnon and Danielle Metz
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A conversation with COMMUTED's Nailah Jefferson, Darcy McKinnon and Danielle Metz. (4m 13s)
Commuted | A Commutation, A Second Chance
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Kenneth Polite, Jr. shares why he supported President Obama's clemency of Danielle Metz. (59s)
Commuted | A Daughter Without Her Mother
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A daughter opens up about growing up very young without her mother who was incarcerated. (47s)
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Danielle Metz, a mother of two, tells her story of incarceration and separation. (18s)
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Danielle Metz speaks at a Free Her campaign, calling for clemency of incarcerated women. (53s)
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After Danielle Metz’s commutation, she gets a rare chance to regain her life and family. (30s)
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Funding for AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Funding for America ReFramed provided by the...