When Kids Get Life
February 13th 2008
6:00 pm
Eaton Humanities 135
CU – Boulder
The Pendulum Foundation will be showing the PBS FRONTLINE documentary “When Kids Get Life.” The U.S. is one of the very few countries in the world that allows children under 18 to be prosecuted as adults and sentenced to life without parole. Currently there are more than 2000 of these young offenders imprisoned for the rest of their natural lives. In the rest of the world, there are only 12 juveniles serving the same sentence, according to figures reported to the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child. This documentary is the story of five of them in the state of Colorado.
Established as a non-profit in 2001, the Pendulum Foundation is dedicated to educating the public about the issue of children in adult prisons, and in transforming the lives of all those youthful offenders who are currently behind bars. Mary Ellen Johnson, the Executive Director of the Pendulum Foundation, will be answering questions after the screening of the documentary.
The event is free and open to the public.
The event is sponsored by the University of Colorado Law School, the Department of Philosophy of the University of Colorado – Boulder, the Center for Bioethics And Humanities at University of Colorado – Denver, the Center for Values and Social Policy, and the Pendulum Foundation.
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For directions:
http://www.colorado.edu/campusmap/map.html?bldg=HUMN
For the official website of the PBS FRONTLINE documentary:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/whenkidsgetlife/
For the Pendulum Foundation’s website:
Compassion in Juvenile Sentencing 