Conbody's Fight for Second Chances

0:00It's April 30th, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Entertainment and Celebrity News today. Your AI-powered entertainment report. A new documentary series called, Conbody vs. Everybody, just dropped on the Criterion Channel, tracking former drug dealer Cosmarte's Wild Ride. Starting a gym in New York City's Lower East Side, over 12 years, filmmaker Debra Granick Caffshed Marte turning his prison workout into Conbody, a spot hiring mostly folks fresh out of the system. As trainers, he dropped 70 pounds in six months behind bars and built this business against all odds. It kicked off more than a decade ago, when Granick Marte at a diner, drawn to his hustle after seven years locked up by age 27. They filmed hundreds of hours over eight years, boiling it down to a five-hour urban saga of redemption, with Marte pitching investors and dodging, evictions while giving ex-immates real jobs in purpose. This in the series faced brutal re-entry hurdles like strict parole rules banning them from

1:02working together, job rejections over records, and personal losses from gun violence to housing woes. Marte mentors them through first paychecks, apartments, and feedback, proving rehabilitation worked one person at a time, in a neighborhood that doubted them. Meanwhile, the Lower East Side flip hard during the 2010s, with gentrification pushing out old spots for luxury builds and sky high rents up to $30,000 a month. Combaudi popped up in places like Sax 5th Avenue, relocated multiple times, and now Marte's expanding with Conbud, his cannabis company Hiring More, returnees while his brother fights displacement in city council. This series spotlights real justice through second chances, training youth and facilities and challenging prison reform one story at a time. It's streaming now in the US, changing how we see folks coming home.