You can contact
the governor's office, 303-866-2471,
and ask him to commute to time served all 5 of the Colorado juveniles
featured in the Frontline broadcast, "When Kids Get Life". You
can also email the governor at [email protected]
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Children
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non-profit organization, we are committed to educating the public
about
the issues
surrounding children convicted and sentenced as adults. We are
also committed to taking groundbreaking programs and projects into the
prisons that will help our incarcerated youth survive and thrive,
as well as transform the lives of young prisoners re-entering society
and at-risk youth. Our goal is to ensure - whether inside or outside of
prison -- happy, healthy, well-adjusted and productive adults.
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John Leonard New York
Magazine
"... As usual with Bikel, there is a minimum of
editorializing, a
maximum of alert sympathy for everybody talked to, and a startled eye,
a kind of exacerbated witness, on unruly emotions and lunatic systems.
We emerge from When Kids Get Life, as from each of her previous
films, not merely indignant, but injured in our humanism."
When
Kids Get Life
broadcast on May 08, 2007 at 9pm
(watch on line)
(90 minutes) 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. In Colorado, between 1992 and 2005,
45 juveniles between fifteen and eighteen were sentenced to prison
without the hope of ever being released. Last spring, the state's
legislature eased its tough laws targeting juvenile offenders. The
state passed a bill that made parole possible after 40 years in prison,
but the measure did not apply retroactively to the 45 former juveniles
now in Colorado's prison system. Producer Ofra Bikel visits 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. (read the press release)