When Kids Get Life on Crime & Investigation Network

When Kids Get Life, part of Killer Kids, Sundays at 9pm on Crime & Investigation Network.

The U.S. is one of the very few countries in the world that allows children under eighteen to be prosecuted as adults and sentenced to life without parole. Between 1993 and 2006, 45 juveniles between fifteen and eighteen were sentenced to prison without the hope of ever being released.

In Colorado, the state's legislature eased its tough laws targeting juvenile offenders last spring after the press exerted its pressure. The state passed a bill that made parole possible after 40 years in prison, but the measure did not apply retrospectively to the 45 former juveniles now in Colorado's prison system. We visit five young men in Colorado sentenced to life without parole to examine their crimes and punishment, the laws that sanctioned their convictions, and the prospect of never being free again.

Watch on Sunday 9 May at 9pm

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[blackaurora44]

If you do the crime you do the time. How about asking how the victims family feels?